Etymology

Neo-Hawaiian

Today it means: A person born in Hawaii with mixed ancestry that is only partly Hawaiian. Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*nu
  2. Proto-Indo-European*néwos
  3. Proto-Hellenic*néwos
  4. Ancient Greekνέος (néos)
  5. Ancient Greekνεο- (neo-)
  6. Englishneo-
  7. Proto-Nuclear Polynesian*Sawaiki
  8. HawaiianHawaiʻi
  9. EnglishHawaii
  10. EnglishHawaiian
  11. English todayNeo-Hawaiian

From neo- + Hawaiian.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.