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Where does “Jawaiian” come from?

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

Jawaiian (English): A Hawaiian style of popular music that combines...

Definitions

  1. A Hawaiian style of popular music that combines...

Ancestry of “Jawaiian”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHawaiianDescended from the peoples inhabiting the...
2EnglishHawaii—
3HawaiianHawaiʻiHawaiian
4Proto-Nuclear PolynesianSawaikitraditional homeland
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