Where does “ri-Awai” come from?

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

ri-Awai (Marshallese): a Hawaiian

Definitions

  1. a Hawaiian

Ancestry of “ri-Awai”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MarshalleseAwai—
2EnglishHawaiiThe largest of the Hawaiian Islands
3HawaiianHawaiʻiHawaiian
4Proto-Nuclear PolynesianSawaikitraditional homeland
Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki →Every word from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi →Every word from English Hawaii →