ʻanuʻu

== Hawaiian == === Etymology === (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʔaˈnu.ʔu/, [ʔəˈnu.ʔu] === Noun === ʻanuʻu stairs, steps ledge or terrace (of rocks) sprain, strain (by false step); disjointed vertebra Synonym: māui (figuratively) error, slip-up (historical) tower found in a heiau enclosed with tapa cloth; oracle tower Synonym: nuʻu (music) interval between two notes on a musical staff (grammar) degrees of an adjective: ==== Derived terms ==== ʻanuʻu hana (“step (of solving a problem)”) pili ʻanuʻu (“to go up an interval on a musical staff”) === Verb === ʻanuʻu (music) to go up an interval on a musical staff Synonym: pili ʻanuʻu (intransitive) to trip, sprain (figuratively) to jar ==== See also ==== iwi kuamoʻo, kuamoʻo (“backbone”) === References === Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H. (1986), “ʻanuʻu”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN Hawaiian Language Committee, compilers (2003), Māmaka Kaiao: A Modern Hawaiian Vocabulary‎[1], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press Paul Nahoa Lucas, editor, compiled by Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation and University of Hawaiʻi Committee for the Preservation and Study of Hawaiian Language, Art, and Culture (1995), A Dictionary of Hawaiian Legal-Land Terms‎[2], Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN ʻanuʻu in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.