Note 28 — Chapter XXXI · HIIAKA VISITS PELE-ULA AT KOU—THE HULA KILU
Reading edition
Pu’u o Moe-awa. The full form is Moe-awakea (noonday sleep), the name of a hill in Puna. By omitting kea, the word awakea (noon) comes to mean bitter, thus imparting to the meaning a cutting irony. Cf. note (a), page 176. ↑