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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 .
Buddhahead: Hawaii person of Japanese descent. In this context, “Buddha” is likely a corruption of Japanese “豚 (buta)”, meaning “pig”. In contrast, the term “Katonk” means a Japanese-American from the US mainland. Habut/Habuteru: To feel grumpy or resentful, especially after feeling offended by something.
Note: The word ʻewa can also mean crooked, out of shape, imperfect, ill-fitting. The word ewa, (without the okina), means unstable, swaying, wandering; strayed . This section is here to highlight some of the most common words of the Hawaiian Language, ʻŌlelo , that are used in everyday conversation amongst locals.
Māhū in Native Hawaiian and Tahitian cultures are people who embody both male and female spirit. [1] They have traditional spiritual and social roles within the culture, similar to Tongan fakaleiti and Samoan fa'afafine. [2]
Hawaiian Journal of History. 1. hdl: 10524/528. Ogawa, Dennis M. ed. Kodomo no tame ni = For the sake of the children : the Japanese American experience in Hawaii (U of Hawaii Press, 1978) online, excerpts from essays by experts; Okihiro, Gary Y. Cane fires: the anti-Japanese movement in Hawaii, 1865–1945 (Temple University Press, 1991) online
One of the main focuses of Hawaiian-medium schools is to teach the form and structure of the Hawaiian language by modeling sentences as a "pepeke", meaning squid in Hawaiian. [66] In this case the pepeke is a metaphor that features the body of a squid with the three essential parts: the poʻo (head), the ʻawe (tentacles) and the piko (where ...
Mashiro Mitsumine, a brown-haired monster from the Japanese four-panel manga Engaged to the Unidentified; Mashiro Nijigaoka, a character in the Japanese anime series Soaring Sky! Pretty Cure; Mashiro Shiina, a character in the Japanese light novel series The Pet Girl of Sakurasou; Mashiro Shizuyama, a character in Role-playing game Blue Archive
Hawaiian has only eight consonant phonemes: /p, k ⁓ t, ʔ, h, m, n, l ⁓ ɾ, w ⁓ v/. There is allophonic variation of [k] with [t], [w] with [v], and [l] with [ɾ]. The [t] – [k] variation is highly unusual among the world's languages. Hawaiian has either 5 or 25 vowel phonemes, depending on how long vowels and diphthongs are analyzed ...