The story
- Hawaiian · borrowed fromʻaʻaliʻi“name of any of the hardwood shrubs of the genus Dodonaea”
- English todayaalii
From Hawaiian ʻaʻaliʻi (“name of any of the hardwood shrubs of the genus Dodonaea”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
aalii
Today it means: A bushy small tree, Dodonaea viscosa, native to Hawaii, Australia, Africa, and tropical America, having sticky leaves and dark wood. Full definition →
Hawaiian ʻaʻaliʻi