Inoa | Name(s)

Puna (Kauaʻi)

Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Moku

Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Hanamāʻulu; Haʻikū; Kalapakī; Kamalomaloʻo; Kapaʻa; Keālia; Kipu Kai; Kīpū; Niumalu; North Olohena; South Olohena; Nāwiliwili; Wailua (Kauaʻi); Waipouli

Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Kauaʻi

Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo

He moku kēia ma ka mokupuni o Kauaʻi. Aia ʻo Puna ma ka ʻaoʻao hikina o ka mokupuni o Kauaʻi, aia ma waena o ka moku o Koʻolau, ma ka ʻākau, a me Kona, ma ka ʻaoʻao hema. Wahi a ka ʻōlelo noʻeau ” He nani wale nō o Puna mai ʻō a ʻō.” Aia ʻo Waiʻaleʻale, ke kuahiwi a wailele nui o ka mokupuni o Kauaʻi ma kēia moku. He ʻekolu kahawai e kahe ana i ke kahewai nui ʻo Wailua, ʻo lākou ʻekolu ʻo Hulēʻia, Hanamāʻulu, a me Keʻālia. Aia ka pae kuahiwi ʻo Hāʻupu ma kēia moku, kapa ʻia ka pae kuahiwi no ka pilikua, ʻo kona inoa ʻo Hāʻupu. AIa kekahi kuahiwi i kapa ʻia no kekahi pilikua, ʻo ia ʻo Nounou. Aia ma Puna ka loko iʻa nui ʻo ʻAlekoko, no ke aliʻi o kēlā wahi i ka wā e kūkulu ʻia ana ka loko iʻa e nā menehune.

Description

The Kawaihau district, Kauaʻi, was sometimes called Puna. (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)

ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi

E koho iā “Puna (Kauaʻi)” no ka moku o Puna ma ka mokupuni o Kauaʻi. No ka moku o Puna ma Hawaiʻi e koho iā “Puna (Hawaiʻi)

Instructions

Use for the mock of Puna on Kauaʻi. Not to be confused with the area of the same name on the island of Hawaiʻi.

Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy 

Akua | Deity: Pele; Kamapuaʻa; Hiʻiakaikapoliopele; Kapoʻulakīnaʻu; Hāʻupu

Kanaka | Person: Kawelo

Hana | Practice: Lawaiʻa; Mahiʻai; Hana kaua

Kūmole | Source(s)

“Puna,” Inoa ʻĀina Hawaiʻi Database, Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library.

Pukui, Mary Kawena. ’Olelo No’eau : Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings. Honolulu, Hawai’i: Bishop Museum Press, 1983.

Wichman, Frederick B. Kauaʻi : Ancient Place-Names and Their Stories. Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1998.

Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Ancient sites of Kaua’i : a guide to Hawaiian archaeological and cultural places of interest

Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai