makaiadv.adj.

1873 W. R. Bliss Paradise in Pacific ix. 85 Geographical ideas are limited by these natural boundaries; every locality and direction being..either makai, toward the sea, or mauka, toward the mountains.

1875 C. Nordhoff Northern California, Oregon, & Sandwich Islands 243 The chief ordered his servants to go bird-hunting. They obeyed; but instead of going to the mountains (mauka), they set snares on the shores (makai).

1895 Overland Monthly June 602/2 Ma uka means at the uka, or high land; ma kai, at the sea, that is to say these words mean landward and seaward, as terms of direction, and they are so used rather than the points of the compass. The native born think in terms of ‘mauka’ and ‘makai’.

1895 Overland Monthly June 605/2 Directly seaward from (makai of) the same forests are stony coasts baking in the merciless sun.

1991 World Monitor Oct. 76/1 An hour or so makai..by car from Kilauea and you are at the ocean.

1883 Overland Monthly Oct. 340 At the present writing, my friends are chatting upon the Makai veranda—that is, the veranda on the seaward side of the hotel.

1938 L. Mumford Whither Honolulu? iv. 8 No attempt has been made..to preserve the approaches to the water to give vistas of the sea at the end of the makai-pointed streets.

1976 Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. d-1/2 The would-be kidnapper sped off in the makai direction, but not before the quick-thinking girl had memorized his license number.

1989 Hawaii Business Aug. 197/1 It was the last undeveloped property in the Hale Nani business tract on the makai end of Umi Street.