{"id":156999,"date":"2022-03-29T15:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T01:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=156999"},"modified":"2022-03-29T15:55:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T01:55:20","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kalai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/29\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kalai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: K\u0101lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_60509\"  width=\"620\" height=\"465\"  data-origwidth=\"620\" data-origheight=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bwt5GCLGv38?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Hawaiian Word of the Week: K\u0101lai\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=kalai\"><span aria-label=\"kalai\">K\u0101lai<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;To carve, cut, hew, engrave, hoe; to divide, as land; to shape a canoe or (fig.) an enterprise or intellectual policy; to plan, formulate, budget.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>More &#699;\u014dlelo<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/22\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-naauao\/\"><span aria-label=\"Naauao\">Na&#699;auao<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/15\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-ao\/\">Ao<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/08\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-mookuauhau\/\"><span aria-label=\"Mookuauhau\">Mo&#699;ok&#363;&#699;auhau<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/03\/01\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-hoomanao\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hoomanao\">Ho&#699;omana&#699;o<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/22\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-awe\/\">Awe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/15\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-kaukoe\/\">Kaukoe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/08\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-maiau\/\">Maiau<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/01\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-hooko\"><span aria-label=\"Hooko\">Ho&#699;ok&#333;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;Carving offers insight into the meticulous thought processes of our ancestors. It is in preparation, the division and order of work, thought, space, and material, that places before us the opportunity to shape a desired outcome. Through that shaping, we too are shaped physically, mentally and spiritually.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<strong>Miki Cook<\/strong>, Lecturer, (Hawaiian Language; Hawaiian Studies), Windward Community College<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other elements of the definition and usage, go to the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=Kalai\"><em>Wehewehe Wikiwiki<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News<\/em> story:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2022\/02\/01\/hawaiian-language-departments-olelo-of-the-week\/\">Hawaiian language departments launch &#699;\u014dlelo of the week<\/a>, February 1, 2022<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg\" alt=\"Olelo of the week\" width=\"676\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-130x31.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>K\u0101lai&#8212;to carve, cut, hew, engrave, hoe; to divide, as land; to shape a canoe or (fig.) an enterprise or intellectual policy; to plan, formulate, budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[61,33,1057,62,63,64,65,1530,71,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-156999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-olelo-of-the-week","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156999"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157071,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156999\/revisions\/157071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}