Where does “hawaià” come from?

hawaià (Catalan) comes from Catalan Hawai, from English Hawaii, from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki — traditional homeland.

hawaià (Catalan): Hawaiian

Definitions

  1. Hawaiian

Ancestry of “hawaià”, step by step

hawaià traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Catalan Hawai

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1CatalanHawaiHawaii
2EnglishHawaiiThe largest of the Hawaiian Islands
3HawaiianHawaiʻiHawaiian
4Proto-Nuclear PolynesianSawaikitraditional homeland

via Catalan A

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1CatalanA—
Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki →Every word from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi →Every word from English Hawaii →