Note 26 — Chapter XXXIV · PELE’S BRIGADE IS SENT TO THE ATTACK OF LOHIAU
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Na’ena’e, said of an object that looks small from a distance. The use of the particle emphatic o, placed before this word, implies that it performs the office of a proper name, here a place-name. Such a use of the particle emphatic before a noun not a proper name indicates that the word is used as an abstract term. ↑