Where does “Awai” come from?

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

Ancestry of “Awai”, step by step

Awai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Hawaii

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

via Arabic أَوَّل

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicأَوَّلfirst

Words derived from “Awai”

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