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Hawaiian narrative derives the name's origin from the legend of Hawaiʻiloa, the Polynesian navigator credited with discovering the Hawaiian Islands. The story relates that he named the island after a favorite son; a possible translation of Kauaʻi is "place around the neck", describing how a father would carry his child.
Makana Mountain ridge from Limahuli Garden and Preserve, Kauai, Hawaii. Makana is a mountain located on northern shore of the island of Kauaʻi, where it rises 1,115 feet (340 m) above Limahuli Valley. [1] Makana is a Hawaiian language term meaning gift or reward. [2] It is often used as a person's name or as part of a name.
Niʻihau dialect (Standard Hawaiian: ʻŌlelo Niʻihau, Niʻihau: Olelo Matuahine, lit. 'mother tongue') is a dialect of the Hawaiian language spoken on the island of Niʻihau, more specifically in its only settlement Puʻuwai, and on the island of Kauaʻi, specifically near Kekaha, where descendants of families from Niʻihau now live.
It is the most populous town in the island of Kauai, with a population of 11,652 as of the 2020 census, [2] up from 9,471 at the 2000 census. Kapaʻa is a Hawaiian word meaning "the solid one". [3] It is formed from ka (the) and pa'a (solid). Notable people from Kapaʻa include Lokalia Montgomery. [4]
Puʻuwai (literally, "heart" in Hawaiian, [1] pronounced [puʔuˈvɐj]) is an unincorporated community in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States, [2] and the only settlement on the island of Niʻihau. It is at the western coast of the small island, and Native Hawaiians who live in this village speak the Niihau dialect of the Hawaiian language. The ...
Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) [7] is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
Kōloa is located on the southern side of the island of Kauai at (21.907137, -159.465877 It is bordered to the northwest by Omao and to the south by Poipu.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.2 km 2), all of it recorded as land.
Kauai, Hawaii, United States Mount Waiʻaleʻale / ˌ w aɪ ˌ ɑː l eɪ ˈ ɑː l eɪ / is a shield volcano and the second highest point on the island of Kauaʻi in the Hawaiian Islands . Its name literally means "rippling water" or "overflowing water".