"Makemake ʻo Kēhau i ka mea uliuli."
Translation:Kēhau likes the blue one.
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I've seen it used (here) to mean dark green - in the same way I've seen, in English, "peacock" and "teal" followed by either blue or green. I still never know which they mean; kinda leaves you guessing! Greater precision would clarify better, imho.
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Wow, seems blue and green are such important colors in Hawaii there would be MANY words for them. There must be more to this story! :)
Manomano NEW Hawaiian dictionary look up Hawiian words:
link: manomano.io
link for (uliuli): https://manomano.io/definition/35756
Mahalo nui no kēia link! First really helpful information I've seen. Is there a way you can get this info to the programmers? It's very helpful in clarifying this ongoing issue!
AND - for what it's worth, the program did accept "the dark one" without and specific color mentioned. Gotta ask my kumu!
The hawaiian dictionary shows uliuli as both green and blue and this program uses it as dark green and dark blue previously.
A better word rather than "uliuli" should be "Uli" Link: https://manomano.io/definition/35738
Also "uliuli" is inaccurate because it can only describe Dark blue if it pertains to ONLY clothing Link:https://wehewehe.org/gsdl2.85/cgi-bin/hdict?e=q-11000-00---off-0hdict--00-1----0-10-0---0---0direct-10-ED--4--textpukuielbert%2ctextmamaka-----0-1l--11-haw-Zz-1---Zz-1-home-uliuli--00-4-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-00-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&d=D20061
I'm not native hawaiian but I would suppose the reason why Makemake means both "want" and "like" is because it literally just means "like" but it's used to mean "want" in a less direct way. Similar to how we say "I would like" in English. Perhaps if you used the literal word for "I desire" it would have a negative connotation closer to the English words such as covet, lust, or greed. Not something you'd want to say.