Where does “ਹਵਾਈ” come from?

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

ਹਵਾਈ (Punjabi): aerial pertaining to air, flight, or the atmosphere

Definitions

  1. aerial pertaining to air, flight, or the atmosphere

Ancestry of “ਹਵਾਈ”, step by step

ਹਵਾਈ traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via English Hawaii

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

via Persian هوایی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianهواییair, aerial
2Pashtoهواييaerial
3Arabicـِيّ{{n-g|suffix used to derive adjectives and...
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