Where does “Hawaii” come from?

Hawaii comes from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi, from Proto-Polynesian Sawaiki, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki, with the original meaning now obscure.

Hawaii (English): The largest of the Hawaiian Islands

Definitions

  1. The largest of the Hawaiian Islands

Ancestry of “Hawaii”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1HawaiianHawaiʻiHawaiian
2Proto-Nuclear PolynesianSawaikitraditional homeland

Words derived from “Hawaii”

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