Portal:Hawaii/Olelo/13

This section is here to highlight some of the most common words of the Hawaiian Language, Ōlelo, that are used in everyday conversation amongst locals. Ewa Place name west of Honolulu, used as a direction term A common usage:

"The ewa-bound lanes of the freeway are backed up due to an earlier accident."

Note: The word ewa can also mean crooked, out of shape, imperfect, ill-fitting. The word ewa, (without the okina), means unstable, swaying, wandering; strayed.