Where does “ハワイ雁” come from?

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

ハワイ雁 (Japanese): a Hawaiian goose

Definitions

  1. a Hawaiian goose

Ancestry of “ハワイ雁”, step by step

ハワイ雁 traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese ハワイ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1JapaneseハワイHawaii
2EnglishHawaiiThe largest of the Hawaiian Islands
3HawaiianHawaiʻiHawaiian
4Proto-Nuclear PolynesianSawaikitraditional homeland

via Japanese 雁

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese雁wild goose; cry of a wild goose
2Middle Chinese雁—
Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki →Every word from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi →Every word from English Hawaii →