Dictionary

KONANE TERMS:

'ai: eat, capture

'ai honua: land eater

'akau: right

'ele'ele: black

hema: left

holo: travel

'ili'ili: small stones

kaholo: multiple jumps

kaka'i: edge rows

kea: white

konene: move by jumping

kou manawa: your move

ku'i: strike back/to jump over the piece just moved, along the same row of file but in the opposite direction.

kumu pili: wager (wagers agreed upon by two players could be as small as a kiss, or as valuable as one's family land or even their life, it could settle a political dispute or get time alone with someone you desired)

lua: pits, depressions for the stones (marbles)

papakonane/papamu: playing board (stone or wood)

papa: flat

piko: navel, center of board, (frequently marked with inset human molar or chicken/human bone)

make: dead/to lose

mu: name of the official who captured men for sacrifice or for judicial punishment. BUCK (1957) thinks it is more likely that this mu and papamu come from the English word "move" which Europeans frequently said as they played board games.