Etymology

Hawaiki

H4A1W4A1I1K5I1

Today it means: The original home of the Māori, before they travelled across the sea to New Zealand. It also features as the underworld in many Māori stories. Full definition →

Māori Hawaiki ← Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Nuclear Polynesian · derived from*Sawaiki
  2. Māori · borrowed fromHawaiki
  3. English todayHawaiki

Borrowed from Māori Hawaiki, from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki, Doublet of Hawaii and Savai'i.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*Sawaiki all →

HawaiiSavai'i

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.