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VOCAB: Computer [system]

The system of a computer contains more items than a simple picture or two would be able to illustrate. So below, instead of an image, is a short video taking you through what you'd see on screen while navigating your computer!

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Memorize the vocab from the video, but in case it's not clear what is shown there is a list of these terms adjacent. Underneath, there is a breakdown of most terms - it's not necessary to memorize these, but it will help you grasp the true meaning of the words and thus make memorization easier to retain.

  • Kaomi = To click

  • Kaomi pālua = To double click

  • Paʻina = Click (the sound itself)

  • ʻOneki = Desktop

  • Kiʻiona = Icon;
    Polokalamu = Program

  • Papa koho = Task bar

  • Hoʻomaka = Start

  • Papa kuhikuhi = Start menu

  • Papa waihona = File menu, directory

  • Lolelole = To scroll

  • Wahī = Folder

  • Kakena paʻaloko = Hard drive ; 
    Kakena kūloko = Internal drive

  • Waihona ʻike = Memory

  • Kakena kūwaho = External drive

  • Huli = To search

  • E hana ana = Working...

  • Waihona = File
    Palapala = Document

  • Hoʻomaka iā Miscrosoft Word... = Starting Microsoft Word...

  • Ke kikokiko nei au = I am typing

  • Kikokikona = Text

  • Mālama = Save

  • Mālama ma ka inoa ʻo _ = Save as

  • Pani = Close
    Haʻalele = Quit

  • Hana kope = To make a copy

  • Kope = To copy; (A) copy
    Kumu kope = Original copy

  • ʻOpi = To compress (make a zip file)

  • Waihona ʻopihia = Compressed file

  • Holoi = Delete

  • Paʻi = Print

  • Mīkini paʻi = Printer

  • Pepa i paʻi ʻia = Printed paper

  • Hoʻoili = To download

  • Hoʻouka = To upload, install

  • Pae ʻōnaehana = Operating system

Breakdown of words

-Kōmi is another term for Kaomi but used in Niʻihau

-Pālua = Twice, double, dual

  • Can be used as an Adverb, like in Kaomi pālua

-Paʻina

  • Paʻi = To stamp, slap; now used to mean "To print" (starting from the days of typewriters and how they used to print newspapers)

  • -na is a common ending on certain verbs to make them nouns

-ʻOneki = Deck (from English), as in the platform

-Kiʻiona

  • Kiʻi = Image + aforementioned -na

-Polokalamu = Program (from English)

-Papa, koho = Board/flat surface/list, To choose

-Papa, kuhikuhi = Board/flat surface/list, To point/direct/show

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-Papa, waihona = Board/flat surface/list, storage/file

  • Waihona is composed of the verb Waiho = To leave (something behind) and the aforementioned -na; it usually translates to "Storage" (i.e. place where you can leave things behind)

-Wahī = Folder (physical or on the computer), wrapper, envelope

-Kakena, paʻaloko = Cartridge, built inside

  • Kakena, kūloko = Cartridge, standing inside

  • Kakena kūwaho = Cartrdige, standing outside

-Waihona, ʻike = Storage, knowledge

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-Kikokiko = To type; originally meaning "To dot, spot, speckle" (as in, paper);it could also have derived simply as an onomatopoeia for how typewriting or newspaper printing sounded at the time - in this sense, kikiko can also be used as a synonym to paʻi to mean "To print"

  • Kikokikona = Kikokiko "To type" + aforementioned -na

-Mālama = To save, preserve

-Mālama ma ka inoa ʻo _ = To save in the name _

-Haʻalele = To leave (as in, from a building)

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-Hana kope = To make, copy (from English)

-ʻOpi = To fold, crease (as in, clothes, which makes them smaller for storage)

-Waihona, ʻopihia = Storage, compressed/collapsed (from the verb ʻopi, likely with the aforementioned -na with the letter -n- dropped)

-Holoi = To wash, erase

-Mīkini, paʻi = Machine (from English), To print

-Pepa i paʻi ʻia = Paper (from English) that has been printed

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-Hoʻoili = To transfer, distribute

-Hoʻouka = Originally: To load, as cargo or freight; To put on, as gear on a horse

-Pae, ʻōnaehana = Platform, System

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