Where does “ʻāinapuniʻole” come from?
ʻāinapuniʻole (Hawaiian) comes from Hawaiian ʻāina, from Proto-Polynesian *kaaiŋa.
ʻāinapuniʻole (Hawaiian): continent
Ancestry of “ʻāinapuniʻole”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Hawaiian | ʻāina | land |
| 2 | Proto-Polynesian | *kaaiŋa | — |