[Ads-l] Kama=?utf-8?Q?=CA=BB=C4=81ina_?=(Re: Gloss re: passive of verbal idiom: walk out on)

[Barretts Mail]

Of course the word “Kamaʻāina” is in Wiktionary and Wikipedia (not the online Oxford Dictionaries), so my follow-up comment didn’t make much sense.

I thought that the context of a discount at a bar that caters to Kamaʻāina and ex-pats from the mainland would be sufficient to mean non-local, but the Wikipedia article (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kama%CA%BBaina <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kama%CA%BBaina>) gives a narrow meaning of Kamaʻāina as MM pointed out.

Wiktionary says the English meaning of kamaʻaina meaning is (slang) "Someone who is of Hawaiian origin; a local.” It has a link to kamaʻāina (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kama%CA%BB%C4%81ina <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kama%CA%BB%C4%81ina>) for the Hawaiian meaning which says, "A person born and bred in Hawaii."

In Maui Nō Ka ʻOi Magazine, Tom Stevens wrote an article titled "The Meaning of Kamaʻaina” (http://mauimagazine.net/the-meaning-of-kamaaina/ <http://mauimagazine.net/the-meaning-of-kamaaina/>). He says that Kiope Raymond dedicates a class to the word. As he also notes, merchants give their Kamaʻāina discount to anyone with a Hawaiian driver’s license. There is also a website called KamaainaJobs (https://kamaainajobs.com/about.php <https://kamaainajobs.com/about.php>) focused on connecting employers and employees in the Hawaiian islands.

Here are come citations that probably all mean born in Hawaiʻi.

1. 1904 or 1907 or 1917 (Google-dated)
Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1904
Thos G. Thrum
 (http://bit.ly/2prMRDX <http://bit.ly/2prMRDX>)
p. 154

—— 
… these men from Hawaii had gone into the pit, a certain kama-aina (native of Maui) came and closed the mouth of the pit with stones and kept the men there until they were dead.
——

The hyphen is at the end of a line.

2. 1906 (Google-dated and the type looks much more modern) 
Paradise of the Pacific, Volumes 19-22
(http://bit.ly/2oTfz1E <http://bit.ly/2oTfz1E>) 

——
A kama-aina in reciting reminiscences loves to dwell on the days of the fleets that stocked with provisions in Hawaii, sales up to the Arctic and returned with barrels of oil of the New Bedford merchants…
——

Again, the hyphen is at the end of a line.

3. 1916
Hawaii Scenes and Impressions
Katharine Fullerton Gerould
(http://bit.ly/2pSYKUS <http://bit.ly/2pSYKUS>)

——
A _kama-aina_ can tell at once the nationality and the breed of any individual whom he passes;…
——


4. Probably 1918 or 1919
The Hawaiian Forester and Agriculturist: A Quarterly Magazine of Forestry, Entomology, Plant Inspection and Animal Industry, Volumes 14-15
(http://bit.ly/2pEgSRj <http://bit.ly/2pEgSRj>)

——
The Paradise Tree should become a member of that large and growing family of Hawaiian trees that are native to other lands, but that have become so thoroughly established in their mi-Pacific island home that they are now recognized as _kama-ainas_.
——

5. Much more recently: 1977
The Polynesian Family System in Ka-ʻUʻ, Hawaiʻi (http://bit.ly/2prMxoN <http://bit.ly/2pT7udo>, http://amzn.to/2p1r3eG <http://amzn.to/2p1r3eG>)
e.s. Craighill Handy, Mary Kawena Pukui 

… but to K.’s travelling companions who were camping nearby she was _kamaʻaina_, for she was the native “daughter of the land” (_kamaʻaina_) who took the strangers (_malihini_) to see places of interest. So we who were not her guests say of her, _Ko makou kamaʻaina ia o Ka-ʻu_—“She was our local resident” (literally “child of the land”).

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

> On 30 Apr 2017, at 22:41, Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is one of many words in Hawai'i not in dictionaries. BB
> 
>> On 30 Apr 2017, at 22:12, Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> Kama'aina (Hawaiian: kamaʻāina, lit "child of the land") is a word
>> describing Hawaiʻi residents born on Hawai'i regardless of their racial
>> background, as opposed to "kanaka" which means a person of native Hawaiian
>> ancestry.
>> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kama%27aina)
>> 
>> Hey, if I had to look it up I'm probably not the only one.
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 20, 2017 2:05 PM, "Barretts Mail" wrote:
>> 
>> Diamond’s Ice Bar and Grill is located in the north part of Kihei on Maui
>> and tends to cater to the Kamaʻāina and ex-pats from the mainland.
>> 
>> They have a sign that says:
>> 
>> 20% will be added to all tabs walked out on
>> 
>> I’m pretty sure this sort of passive verbal idiom has been discussed here
>> before. I didn’t see anything in a quick search of the archives but either
>> way, it’s a data point.
> 


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