ʻai ʻono — meaning and pronunciation
Pronounced /ai OH-noh/ — syllables: ai · OH · noh
Meaning
Delicious food; to eat deliciously.
How to pronounce ʻai ʻono
Hawaiian vowels are always sounded separately. A kahakō (line above a vowel) lengthens it; the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in “uh-oh”.
Frequently asked
What does ʻai ʻono mean?
Delicious food; to eat deliciously.
How do you pronounce ʻai ʻono?
ʻai ʻono is pronounced /ai OH-noh/ — broken into syllables: ai · OH · noh. Each vowel in Hawaiian is sounded separately, and the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in "uh-oh".
Is ʻai ʻono a phrase?
Yes — ʻai ʻono is classified as a phrase in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, within the Food category.
Where does this definition come from?
Definitions and pronunciations on hawaiian-words.com are drawn from the authoritative Pukui-Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary (rev. ed. 1986), the standard scholarly reference for ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.