Who can guess what these modern "Hawaiian" words mean?

Aloha,

Without looking in the dictionary, do you know where the word [ʻūhōloʻa] comes from? How would you guess what it means or how it was put together? 

There are several ways that the Hawaiian Language Lexicon has come up with modern vocabulary. Sometimes they use traditional words, remove letters from these words, borrow non-Hawaiian words and then put them into a single word. It’s gibberish in the very sense of the word, meaningless or unintelligible talk or writing; nonsense. It’s gone away from the way that words have been traditionally created.

Let’s look at some examples of new words...

• haʻuki - Sport: Haʻuti, Tahitian for the verb “play”.
• kū·hoʻe - Record, greatest achievement or performance to date: Kū, qualitative and stative prefix. Hoʻe, is a Tahitian word meaning “one”.
• ʻū·hō·loʻa - Dispenser, i.e. a dispensing container of any kind: ʻŪ, a prefix to many words with meanings ‘quality or state’. Hōlo’a or Hōroʻa, a Tahitian term meaning (to give) or possibly a combination of “Hō” and “loaʻa”.

If a native speaker cannot understand the words we’re using, who’s fault or responsibility is that? …The native speaker or ours? (If you went to Japan and threw in some words you made up, you cannot blame the native speakers for not knowing what you’re trying to say.)   

As you listen to native speakers, focus on:

• The words they’re using, 
• New meanings to words you already know
• HOW they are using words (expression)
• The CONTEXT that they use certain words 

Me ka oiaio no,

Malu