Kuene means: waiter, waitress, steward, treasurer, to wait on a table, to put in order, to arrange or to lay out. We most often use kuene for those who wait on us in restaurants.
Our Hawaiian word for today is ʻAuina lā. ʻAuina means “descending” and lā means “sun.” So the afternoon when the sun is setting is called the ʻauina lā. Aloha ʻauina lā is a good afternoon greeting.