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prettygoodwordTheme week -- 5 x 5. That is, five days of five-letter words, starting with:
makai (muh-KAI) - adv., (Hawaii) toward the sea.
Seaward as opposed to in an inland direction. It is, obsv, a loanword from Hawaiian, and its opposite is mauka, inland -- from which you might deduce that ma is a particle or preposition indicating a direction and kai means sea, and you'd be right (specifically, it's a particle). It's been used by English speakers in Hawaii since the 19th century, but hardly at all elsewhere, a situation I'd like to rectify.
---L.
makai (muh-KAI) - adv., (Hawaii) toward the sea.
Seaward as opposed to in an inland direction. It is, obsv, a loanword from Hawaiian, and its opposite is mauka, inland -- from which you might deduce that ma is a particle or preposition indicating a direction and kai means sea, and you'd be right (specifically, it's a particle). It's been used by English speakers in Hawaii since the 19th century, but hardly at all elsewhere, a situation I'd like to rectify.
---L.
Seaward aka Makai
Date: 2022-06-07 05:33 pm (UTC)Re: Seaward aka Makai
Date: 2022-06-08 02:52 pm (UTC)