Etymology

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Today it means: The currency of Hawaii between 1847 and 1898, equal to the United States dollar. Full definition →

Hawaiian kālā ← English dollar
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The story

  1. English · derived fromdollar
  2. Hawaiian · borrowed fromkālā
  3. English todaydala

From an unassimilated equivalent of Hawaiian kālā, from English dollar.

Words from the same roots

Englishdollar all →

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.