Where does “Havaí” come from?

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

Ancestry of “Havaí”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishHawaiiThe largest of the Hawaiian Islands
2HawaiianHawaiʻiHawaiian
3Proto-Nuclear PolynesianSawaikitraditional homeland
Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki →Every word from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi →Every word from English Hawaii →
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