Where does “akadahn awai” come from?

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

akadahn awai (Pohnpeian): A certain cultivar of banana with a red peel, used as food

Definitions

  1. A certain cultivar of banana with a red peel, used as food

Ancestry of “akadahn awai”, step by step

akadahn awai traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Marshallese Awai

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1MarshalleseAwai—
2EnglishHawaiiThe largest of the Hawaiian Islands
3HawaiianHawaiʻiHawaiian
4Proto-Nuclear PolynesianSawaikitraditional homeland

via Pohnpeian akadahn

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Pohnpeianakadahnlakatan banana (banana cultivar)
2Tagaloglakatánlakatan banana
Every word from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian Sawaiki →Every word from Hawaiian Hawaiʻi →Every word from English Hawaii →