Etymology

Hawaiian

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Today it means: Descended from the peoples inhabiting the Hawaiian Islands prior to European contact. Full definition →

English Hawaii ← Hawaiian Hawaiʻi ← Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki
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The story

  1. Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*Sawaiki
  2. HawaiianHawaiʻi
  3. EnglishHawaii
  4. English todayHawaiian

From Hawaii + -an.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.