there, that place

Fox, C. 1970

linking or anaphoric particle. Every #ai in Hawaiian has an antecedent, usually expressed, but sometimes understood (Elbert and Pukui 1979:96)

Pukui and Elbert 1971

not generally to be translated by any equivalent English word, but used in the following cases: 1. in relative clauses, where the relative in English is governed by a verb or preposition, 2. in clauses expressing the reason for which anything is done, or the object in view in doing it, 3. in clauses marking the time or place of an action or event, 4. with a verb or adjective denoting an action or state consequent upon some previous action, 5. denoting present habitual condition or action, 6. with reference to something previously mentioned

Williams 1971

suffix: there, away; place where or whither

Wheeler 1926

of time or place; in, at, when, during. May be used after single words or clauses

Lister-Turner and Clark 1930

a particle used in the following ways: 1. after verbs to show that what has happened, or is to happen, is the result, consequence, or intention of what has gone before, 2. to indicate a relative clause, frequently giving a verb a passive sense, 3. with the prepositions #i and #aki to refer to a thing or place already mentioned

McEwen 1970

predicate complement

Carroll and Soulik 1973

particle used after a verb to denote cause, means, etc. of event, or to connect an intransitive verb with a transitive verb

Savage 1980

common anaphoric particle usually closing a verb phrase and liking it to a preceding noun, often with meaning there, thereby, thus, at, in, it, him, her

Elbert 1975

anaphoric and relative particle: there, why (e.g. 'that was the reason why he came'), herein, hereby

Milner 1966

it, sometimes used as a relative pronoun

pronominal adverb: there, in it, on it, because of it, etc.; or (in a relative sense) where, in which, on which, because of which, etc.

Churchward 1959

anaphoric pronoun