Hawaiian Word of the Day: April 13th

By Leilani Poliʻahu

Published April 12, 2022 at 11:00 PM HST

Our Hawaiian word for today is puni meaning surrounded, controlled, overcome. Now that you know how to use the ho‘o prefix, you know that ho‘opuni can mean to surround, enclose, get control of: ho‘opuni.

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