Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The term also appears in other forms, such as blēdsian (before 830), blētsian from around 725 and blesian from around 1000, all meaning to make sacred or holy by a sacrificial custom in the Anglo-Saxon pagan period, originating in Germanic paganism; to mark with blood. [1] Due to this, the term is related to the term blōd, meaning 'blood'. [1]
"E Ola Ke Aliʻi Ke Akua" ('God Save the King') was one of the four national anthems of the Hawaiian Kingdom. It was composed in 1860 by then 25-year-old Prince William Charles Lunalilo, who later became King Lunalilo. Prior to 1860, Hawai‘i lacked its own national anthem and had used the British royal anthem "God Save the King".
In Gujarati, there is no set phrases to acknowledge a sneeze. Most commonly, people would invoke the name of a god, say a phrase meaning "live long"/"good health", or just use the English expression: ગોડ બ્લેસ યુ (goḍ bles yu). "God!" or "God bless you" (using English)
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. Aloha Love, hello, goodbye
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]
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 .
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
This remained in use as our national anthem for some twenty years or more when my brother composed the words Hawaiʻi Ponoʻī." [1] Liliʻuokalani's memoir, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, stated: "In the early years of the reign of Kamehameha V. he brought to my notice the fact that the Hawaiian people had no national air. Each nation, he ...