Note 9 — Chapter XVII · HIIAKA RESTORES TO LIFE MANA-MANA-IA-KALU-EA
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Pa’iauma. This is a word that has presented some difficulties in the discovery of its meaning. The reference, I believe, is to breast-beating practiced by persons distracted with grief. Uma, the final part of the word, I take to be the shortened form of umauma, the bosom. ↑