Etymology

hanai

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Today it means: The practice of traditional Hawaiian adoption of one child into another family. Full definition →

Hawaiian hānai
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The story

  1. Hawaiian · borrowed fromhānai
  2. Hawaiian · borrowed fromhānai
  3. English todayhanai

Borrowed from Hawaiian hānai.

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