Etymology

okina

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Today it means: The Hawaiian apostrophe-like letter (ʻ ) used to indicate the glottal stop consonant. Full definition →

Hawaiian ʻokina
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  1. Hawaiianʻoki
  2. Hawaiianʻokina
  3. English todayokina

Borrowed from Hawaiian ʻokina (“cutting off, separation”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.