awaʻ—see amaʻ.

awaʻhili—eagle; particularly Aquila Chrysaetus, distinguished as the “pretty-feathered eagle.”

awiʻ—deer; also sometimes written and pronounced ahawiʻ; the name is sometimes applied to the large horned beetle, the flying stag of early writers.

awiʻ-ahanuʻlahi—goat; literally “bearded deer.”

awiʻ-ahyeliʻski—“deer mocker”; the deer bleat, a sort of whistle used by hunters to call the doe by imitating the cry of the fawn.

awiʻ-aktaʻ—“deer eye”; the Rudbeckia or black-eyed Susan.

awiʻ-eʻgwa (abbreviated aw-eʻgwa)—the elk, literally “great deer.”

awiʻ-unadeʻna—sheep; literally “woolly deer.”

AwiʻUsdiʻ—“Little Deer,” the mythic chief of the Deer tribe.

Ax, Annie—see Sadayiʻ.