Where does “ハワイ” come from?

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

ハワイ (Japanese): Hawaii

Definitions

  1. Hawaii

Ancestry of “ハワイ”, step by step

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

Words derived from “ハワイ”

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