Note 13 — Chapter XXXVII · PAOA COMES BEFORE PELE
Reading edition
Ki ho’iho’i. Hawaiian authorities differ as to the meaning of this phrase. After much cogitation and search, I concluded that the word ki has the same root-meaning as i, to utter. (I find myself supported in such an interpretation by no less an authority than Edward Tregear. Maori Comparative Dictionary.) ↑