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Using Ulukau, The Hawaiian Electronic Library
DICTIONARIES Now return to the main "Ulukau" page by clicking on the design at the top of the page that says "Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library":
The first six options on the page are "special features" or special collections of information to use. Click on the sixth one, entitled "Hawaiian Dictionaries" and see this:
Notice the cursor is blinking in a little white box, and just to the left of that box it says, "Enter Word." Go ahead and type in some word, like "ohana". Notice that you do not have to use special characters like the glottal-stop (ʻokina) or the macron (kahakō). After you type in "ohana", the screen will look like this:
Now just hit "Enter" in order to look up the word. You will see this:
The computer
has searched through several dictionaries and has found the word in the
dictionary called Notice that it tells you the proper Hawaiian spelling of this word: it has an ʻokina (glottal stop), and is spelled like this: ʻohana. Next it gives you the actual definition that you will find in the Hawaiian Dictionary. Notice that you can hold down the mouse button and move the mouse over the definition and highlight (or "select") a sentence or the whole definition. Then you can "copy" and "paste" this into some other document. You can type any Hawaiian word and if it exists in these dictionaries, the computer will give it to you. Now, type in the English word "chair". Hit "Enter", and you will see this:
Now, let's take a more difficult word. Type in "alii" and hit "Enter", and you will see this:
In this case,
the computer has found the word "alii" in three different
dictionaries, the
Now, click on the back arrow on your browser and go back to see this:
Now click on
the second choice for "alii", the one from the
Notice that this is the name of a fishpond on the island of Molokaʻi, and also the name of a surfing spot at Haleʻiwa on the island of Oʻahu. This website also has some special things you can do. Over towards the right of the screen, it says "All Dictionaries." Click on this, and you will see a small menu, like this:
This lists a menu with the available dictionaries. The usual search is to search through all of the dictionaries, but you can choose to search through just one. For example, click on the "Hawaiian Dictionary". Now the screen should look like this:
Now, click on "look it up", and you'll see this:
Notice how it does not give you three choices like before, but just gives you the regular definition. Now, here is another quick thing you can do. Towards the right of the screen, click on where it says "find regular spelling". It will open a small menu:
Now click on the "find derivative spellings" option, so that the screen looks like this:
Now click on "look it up", and you'll see this:
Notice how the computer has found 66 different words within the
One last thing is near the top right, "How To Use Dictionary". Click on this and it opens a little window with an essay on using this dictionaries website. It covers the information given here, plus some additional information. At the bottom of that little essay, it says "print this" if you want to print a copy. Continue to next section...
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