Better yet, be a lei to honor your parents and ancestors as well as those who came before you. Example: To find the trailhead, head mauka til you reach da dead end. In Hawaiian, puka means hole. What a blessing. Being Pono is a cultural value that we should all strive for. Hawaiian...
Wikipedia (维基百科) is a non-profit website funded by donations, started on 15th January, 2001. “Wiki” means “quick” in the Hawaiian language. These days, most people go straight to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia (百科), to look something up. But how reliable is it? The site ...
Standard American English, on the other hand, has stress-timed rhythm which means that stressed syllables are longer than unstressed ones. The sound /θ/ as in thin and the sound /ð/ as in then are replaced by /t/ and /d/ respectively, e.g., thin is pronounced as /tin/ and ...
Kīlauea's eruptive history has been a long and active one; its name means "spewing" or "much spreading" in the Hawaiian language, referring to its frequent outpouring of lava. 基拉韋厄的爆發歷史是一個漫長而活躍的歷史; 它的名字意味著夏威夷語中的“噴湧”或“很多蔓延”,指的是其頻繁噴出的熔...
Pau means ‘done’ — or, to give the more thorough list of equivalents in the online Hawaiian Dictionary s.v. pau,“Finished, ended, through, terminated, completed, over, all done; final, finishing; entirely, completely, very much; after; all, to have all; to be completely possessed, ...