Where does “Hawaii” come from?

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

Ancestry of “Hawaii”, step by step

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

Words derived from “Hawaii”

Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki →Every word from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi →Every word from English Hawaii →