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  2. Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library - Wikipedia

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    Ulukau: The Hawaiian Electronic Library is an online, digital library of Native Hawaiian reference material for cultural and Hawaiian language studies. The services are free and are provided and maintained by Kahaka ‘Ula O Ke’elikolani College of Hawaiian Language at the University of Hawaii at Hilo [1] and Ka Waihona Puke 'Ōiwi Native Hawaiian Library at Alu Like. [2]

  3. Huna (New Age) - Wikipedia

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    Huna (Hawaiian for "secret") is the word adopted by the non-Hawaiian New Age author Max Freedom Long (1890–1971) in 1936 to describe his theory of metaphysics.Long cited what he believed to be the spiritual practices of the ancient Hawaiian kahunas (priests) as inspiration; however, contemporary scholars consider the system to be his invention designed through a mixture of a variety of ...

  4. List of English words of Hawaiian origin - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian vocabulary often overlaps with other Polynesian languages, such as Tahitian, so it is not always clear which of those languages a term is borrowed from. The Hawaiian orthography is notably different from the English orthography because there is a special letter in the Hawaiian alphabet, the ʻokina.

  5. Kahuna - Wikipedia

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    Hawaiian surfing master Duke Kahanamoku may have been referred to as the Big Kahuna, but he rejected the term as he knew the original meaning. [20] In the New Age spiritual system known as Huna, which uses some Hawaiian words and concepts appropriated from Hawaiian tradition, [21] kahuna denotes someone of priestly or shamanic standing. [22]

  6. Portal:Hawaii/Olelo - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... ʻŌlelo (Language) This section is here to highlight some of the most common words of the Hawaiian Language

  7. Aloha - Wikipedia

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    The word is found in all Polynesian languages and always with the same basic meaning of "love, compassion, sympathy, kindness." [5] Its use in Hawaii has a seriousness lacking in the Tahitian and Samoan meanings. [6] Mary Kawena Pukui wrote that the "first expression" of aloha was between a parent and child. [5]

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  9. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Hawaii-related articles

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    Lānaʻi is an island and has some other meanings, [4] while lānai is a covered porch around a house, [5] and lanai means "stiff-backed". [6] Use of the kahakō and ʻokina, as used in current standard Hawaiian orthography, is preferred in Hawaiian language words, names and usage in the body of articles dealing with Hawaii on the English ...