"trust fund and the U.S. government and began to look to them for support. Most Marshallese speak both the Marshallese language and at least some English. Government agencies use Marshallese. One important word in Marshallese is ""yokwe"" which is similar to the Hawaiian ""aloha"" and means ""hello"", ""goodbye"" and ""love"". The Bikini Atoll is part of the Ralik Chain (for ""sunset chain"") within the Marshall Islands. Between 1946 and 1958, 23 nuclear devices were detonated by the United States at seven test sites located on the reef, inside the atoll, in the air, or underwater. They had a combined fission"
"Aloha Aloha (; ) is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a simple greeting but has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians. A greeting of love and compassion; also means ""to be in the presence of the divinity"" or in the presence of (""alo"") the ""divine breath of life"" (""Ha""). The Aloha Spirit law became official in 1986. The origins of the Hawaiian word ""aloha"" are unclear. The word goes back to the very origins of Hawaii to Kahiki (the homeland) and even further. The word is found"
"of examples dating back as far as 1798 and up to 1978 where it was defined as a substitute for ""welcome"". The modern, common use epitomizes the appropriation of the Hawaiian Language and the cultural dispossession of Native Hawaiians. Lorrin Andrews wrote the first Hawaiian dictionary, called ""A dictionary of the Hawaiian language"". In it he describes ""aloha"" as ""A word expressing different feelings; love, affection, gratitude, kindness, pity, compassion, grief, the modern common salutation at meeting; parting"". Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Hoyt Elbert's ""Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian"" also contains a similar definition. The modern use as a greeting"
"Aloha ʻOe ""Aloha ʻOe"" (""Farewell to Thee"") is Liliʻuokalani's most famous song and a common cultural symbol for Hawaii. The story of the origin of the song has several variations. They all have in common that the song was inspired by a notable farewell embrace given by Colonel James Harbottle Boyd during a horseback trip taken by Princess Liliʻuokalani in 1877 or 1878 to the Boyd ranch in Maunawili on the windward side of Oʻahu, and that the members of the party hummed the tune on the way back to Honolulu. Different versions tell of alternate recipients of the embrace"
"says, ""At first I had no instrument, and had to transcribe the notes by voice alone; but I found, notwithstanding disadvantages, great consolation in composing, and transcribed a number of songs. Three found their way from my prison to the city of Chicago, where they were printed, among them the 'Aloha ʻOe' or 'Farewell to Thee', which became a very popular song."" Originally written as a lover's good-bye, the song came to be regarded as a symbol of, and lament for, the loss of her country. Today, it is one of the most recognizable Hawaiian songs. Captain Julius A. Palmer"
"diminishes the terms original meaning and reduces it to the more superficial expression of ""Good wishes"". Anthropologist Francis Newton states that ""Aloha is a complex and profound sentiment. Such emotions defy definition"". Hawaiians believe the concept to be unique, with no English equivalent. Aloha Aloha (; ) is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a simple greeting but has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians. A greeting of love and compassion; also means ""to be in the presence of the divinity"" or in the presence of (""alo"") the"
"Talofa Talofa is a salutation or greeting in the Samoan language of the Samoan Islands. ""Talofa"" echoes in such phrases as ""ta'alofa"" in Tuvalu, ""aloha"" in Hawaiian and ""aro'a"" in Cook Islands Māori. Another Samoan salutation ""To life, live long!"" properly translated ""Ia ola!"" also echoes in places such as Aotearoa (New Zealand), where the formal greeting in Māori is Kia ora and in Tahiti (French Polynesia) where it is 'Ia orana. ""Talofa"" is also the greeting of the island of Lifou (New Caledonia), and of the island state of Tuvalu. The word was brought to Lifou by the Samoan"
"Kia ora Kia ora (, approximated in English as ) is a Māori language greeting which has entered New Zealand English. It means, literally, ""have life"" or ""be well/healthy"", and is translated as an informal ""hi"" or ""hello"" at the Māori Language Commission website Kōrero Māori. It might be used as a salutation, a farewell or an expression of thanks. It also signifies agreement with a speaker at a meeting, as part of a culture which prizes oratory. Along with the other Māori greetings, ""tēnā koe""; ""tēnā kōrua""; and ""tēnā koutou"" (respectively, one; two; and three or more people), it"
"in all Polynesian languages and always with the same basic meaning of: love, compassion, sympathy and kindness although the use in Hawaii has a seriousness lacking in the Tahitian and Samoan meanings. Its beginnings may be seen in the Maori definition as ""love of kin"". Mary Kawena Pukui wrote that the ""first expression"" of ""aloha"" was between a parent and child. The word has become a part of the English vocabulary in an awkward misuse. The term is now part of English vocabulary. ""The Oxford English Dictionary"" defined the word as a ""greeting"" like ""welcome"" and ""farewell"" using a number"
"Hawaiian culture is that it is meant to represent the unspoken expression of aloha. The meaning of aloha can be interpreted in various ways. Depending on the occasion it can stand for farewell, greeting, love, hope, or joy. These are only a few meanings, as there are no restrictions to the symbolic meaning they hold. The idea is that although the lei lasts only a while, the thought lasts forever. This tradition is spread throughout the major islands on Lei Day. Each island has their own way of celebrating the holiday, as well as a different native vegetation that makes"
"greeting, meaning ""hello"" or ""welcome"". It can also mean ""thank you"", or signify agreement with a speaker at a meeting. The Māori greetings ""tēnā koe"" (to one person), ""tēnā kōrua"" (to two people) or ""tēnā koutou"" (to three or more people) are also widely used, as are farewells such as ""haere rā"". The Māori phrase ""kia kaha"", ""be strong"", is frequently encountered as an indication of moral support for someone starting a stressful undertaking or otherwise in a difficult situation. Although previously in common usage it became an iconic phrase of support following the 2010 Canterbury earthquake. Some hybrid words,"
"""Good day"" in English, ""As-Salamualaikum"" in Arabic, ""Aloha"" in Hawaiian, ""Shalom"" in Hebrew, ""Namaste"" in Hindi and ""Ciao"" in Italian. The bow and handshake are also used for both greeting and leave taking. A greeting can consist of an exchange of formal expression, kisses, handshakes, hugs, and various gestures. The form of greeting is determined by social etiquette, as well as by the relationship of the people. Beyond the formal greeting, which may involve a verbal acknowledgment and sometimes a hand shake, facial expression, gestures, body language and eye contact can all signal what type of greeting is expected. Gestures"
"""to God""), similar to the French ""Adieu"". Blessing is also a term used for marriage in the Unification Church, ""see:"" Blessing Ceremony of the Unification Church. In Hawaii anything new (a new building, a new stretch of road to be opened, a new garden) receives a blessing by a Hawaiian practitioner (or Kahuna) in a public ceremony (involving also the unwinding of e.g. a maile lei). In the Kyrgyz people's tradition, the blessing (""bata"" or ""ak bata"", ""the right blessing"" or ""white blessing"") might be a good wish to somebody by the elderly person or the person with a best"
"generally used to refer to the last day of the work week. Now considered Hawaii's term for ""Thank God It's Friday"" (TGIF), the phrase was used by Kimo Kahoano and Paul Natto in their 1982 song, ""It's Aloha Friday, No Work 'til Monday"", heard every Friday on Hawaii radio stations across the state. Aloha shirt The Aloha shirt, commonly referred to as a Hawaiian shirt, is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawaii. It is currently the premier textile export of the Hawaii manufacturing industry. The dress shirts are printed, mostly short-sleeved, and collared. They usually have buttons, sometimes"
"acknowledgement, or even praise from one individual to another. Residents of Hawaii use the shaka to convey the ""Aloha Spirit"", a concept of friendship, understanding, compassion, and solidarity among the various ethnic cultures that reside in Hawaii, lacking a direct semantic to literal translation. The shaka can also be used to express ""howzit?"", ""thanks, eh?"", and ""all right!"". Drivers will often use it on the road to communicate distant greetings and gratitude. In California, the shaka sign may be referred to as ""hang loose"" or ""hang ten"", both associated with surfer culture. The gesture enjoys common use in American hang"
"to do so and was consequently stood down, with the whole affair attracting much public interest. The Postmaster-General, Rob Talbot, convinced the Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon, to overturn that prohibition. ""Kia ora"" has a similar meaning to the word ""kia orana"", found in related Polynesian languages, such as Cook Islands Māori. Kia ora Kia ora (, approximated in English as ) is a Māori language greeting which has entered New Zealand English. It means, literally, ""have life"" or ""be well/healthy"", and is translated as an informal ""hi"" or ""hello"" at the Māori Language Commission website Kōrero Māori. It might be"
"on their show. Listeners are encouraged to greet the duo with ""ahoy"" when they ring the show. Ahoy (greeting) Ahoy () () is a signal word used to call to a ship or boat, stemming from the Middle English cry, 'Hoy!'. The word had fallen into obsolescence before rising from obscurity as the sport of sailing rose in popularity. 'Ahoy' can also be used as a greeting, a warning, or a farewell. The word can be found with similar pronunciation and writing in several other languages. In Indonesian, another greeting ""Ahiy"" is also used besides Ahoy. In Slovak and Czech"
"vowels. The pronunciation of the word to mean ""breathless"" is conjecture and should be disregarded as myth, as there is absolutely no evidence of anyone using the word ""hāʻole"" prior to Western contact. In Hawaii's ""Rainbow"" ethnic melange of peoples, ""Haole"" is the slang word used to describe Caucasians, and by itself is not a racial slur and has no pejorative connotations. Many visitors are haole, and may be targeted by criminals, but this is because they are vulnerable tourists, not because they are haole. There are rumors that in Hawaii the last day of school is called ""Kill Haole"
"""aloha"" corresponds to Māori ""aroha"", ""love, tender emotion"". Similarly, the Hawaiian word for kava is ""awa"". Similarities in basic vocabulary may allow speakers from different island groups to achieve a surprising degree of understanding of each other's speech. When a particular language shows unexpectedly large divergence in vocabulary, this may be the result of a name-avoidance taboo situation – see examples in Tahitian, where this has happened often. Many Polynesian languages have been greatly affected by European colonization. Both Māori and Hawaiian, for example, have lost many speakers to English, and only in the last twenty years have they resurged"
"in Hawaiian culture, and a majority of Hawaiian songs involve the ukulele. In Hawaiian, ukulele literally means ""flea (uku) jumping (lele)."" It was named as such because when plucked, the high pitch of the strings brings to mind the image of a jumping flea. There are currently four sizes of ukulele; soprano, concert, tenor and baritone. Queen Liliuokalani, the last Hawaiian Queen, believed that the name for the ukulele means ""The gift that came here"". She believed this because of the Hawaiian words ""uku"" which means ""gift or reward"" and ""lele"" which means ""to come."" The ukulele can be played"
"trees. It is named after the royal House of Kamehameha; the last king of this lineage, Kamehameha V, had died in 1872, a short time before this species was described. The specific name ""tameamea"" is an old-fashioned and partially wrong transcription of ""Kamehameha"". The Hawaiian language has no strict distinction between the voiceless alveolar plosive and voiceless velar plosive; use varies from island to island, but today, ""k"" is used as the standard transliteration. The voiceless glottal transition ""h"" is distinct and should always be pronounced - for example, ""aloha"" is correct whereas ""aloa"" is a wrong pronunciation. Thus, while"
"""aloha"" (respect), ""laulima"" (cooperation) and ""malama"" (stewardship) which resulted in a desirable ""pono"" (balance)"". The Hawaiians believed that the land, the sea, the clouds and all of nature had a certain interconnectedness which is why they used all of the resources around them to reach the desired balance in life. Sustainability was maintained by the konohiki and kahuna: priests, who restricted the fishing of certain species during specific seasons. They also regulated the gathering of plants. The term ""ahupuaʻa"" is derived from the Hawaiian words ""ahu"" ""heap, cairn"" and ""puaʻa"" ""pig"". The boundary markers for ahupuaʻa were traditionally heaps of"
"Hello, Hawaii, How Are You? Hello, Hawaii, How Are You? is a song written in 1915, by Jean Schwartz, Bert Kalmar and Edgar Leslie. The song refers to one of Marconi's then-new radio-oriented inventions, the Wireless Telephone, which became publicly available that year. It was initially very expensive to use, and this song underscores the caller's desperation to talk to his or her sweetheart in Hawaii, from his or her home in New York City. The song was recorded in 1915 by Billy Murray, backed with an instrumental version by Pietro Deiro on Side B; and later that year by"
"is also used as a greeting or a farewell, for example the Hawaiian word aloha, as well as the Arabic word ""salaam"". In English the word peace is occasionally used as a farewell, especially for the dead, as in the phrase ""rest in peace"". Wolfgang Dietrich in his research project which led to the book ""The Palgrave International Handbook of Peace Studies"" (2011) maps the different meanings of peace in different languages and from different regions across the world. Later, in his ""Interpretations of Peace in History and Culture"" (2012), he groups the different meanings of peace into five peace"
"want to be with all the ""kanes"" and ""wahines"" that I used to know"" means ""ladies and gentlemen"" (literally ""men and women""). The line, ""Where the ""Humuhumunukunukuapuaa"" go swimming by,"" refers to the tiny reef triggerfish, Hawaii's state fish, by its long Hawaiian name. Poi is a Hawaiian food staple, the ""two-fingered poi"" in the lyrics referring to a medium thickness of poi that requires two fingers to scoop. There is one full line in Hawaiian, """"Komo mai no kāua i ka hale welakahao,"""" which literally translates to, ""Come into our house while the iron's hot."" Dolly Parton, in her"
"addressing people of Caucasian descent who move to Hawaii from the U.S. mainland by the 1860s. A 1906 phrase book sometimes translates it to ""English (language)"". The 1865 ""Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language,"" compiled by Lorrin Andrews, shows the pronunciation as ha-o-le. A popular belief is that the word is properly written and pronounced as ""hāole"", literally meaning ""no breath,"" because foreigners did not know or use the ""honi"" (""hongi"" in Māori), a Polynesian greeting by touching nose to nose and inhaling or essentially sharing each other's breaths, and so the foreigners were described as ""breathless"". The implication is not"
"girls and 15% of boys received at least one Hawaiian name. Names with negative meaning have disappeared in this sample, and the unisex quality is waning. Many favorite names a hundred years ago, like Kealoha, Kalei, Leialoha, and Keonaona, were popular with both sexes. Today, the trendiest names are different for girls and boys. Modern parents seemed to think that the ending -lani belongs to women: 31% of women but only 11% of men had names ending in -lani (""heaven""), -o-ka-lani (""of Heaven""), -o-nā-lani (""of the heavens"") or -mai-ka-lani (""from Heaven""), a recent innovation. Names beginning with the definite article"
"Jack London short story ""Aloha Oe"" features the chorus of the song. When Jiang Zemin, then-Chinese President and the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, arrived at Hawaii at the beginning of his state visit to U.S. in October 1997, he played ""Aloha ‘Oe"" with a Hawaiian lap steel guitar and invited then Hawaiian First Lady Vicky Cayetano to sing the song at a dinner with the presence of Governor Ben Cayetano. Jiang recounted that he used to frequently play this song when he was in college in 1940s. Aloha ʻOe ""Aloha ʻOe"" (""Farewell to Thee"") is Liliʻuokalani's"
"prized by Hawaiian ""alii"" (nobility) for use in decorating ""ahuula"" (feather cloaks) and ""mahiole"" (feathered helmets), and such uses gave the species its original scientific name: ""Vestiaria"", which comes from the Latin for ""clothing"", and ""coccinea"" meaning ""scarlet-colored"". (In 2015 the moved the iiwi from genus ""Vestiaria"" to ""Drepanis"", from the Greek for sickle, a reference to the shape of the beak.) The bird is often mentioned in Hawaiian folklore. The Hawaiian song ""Sweet Lei Mamo"" includes the line ""The i'iwi bird, too, is a friend"". The bird can hover, much like a hummingbird. Its peculiar song consists of a"
"over the walls and windows of the Tiki Room. Manu suspects that one of the drawings is of the Big Kahuna, the leader of the Enchanted Tiki. If he is angered, they will be doomed. Mahina points out that the messages also say ""Aloha e komo mai"", which is Hawaiian for ""Hello, welcome."" Hanoli is amused that the phrase also happens to be the name of their next song, and wonders how the vandal knew that. Mahina guesses that the Tiki Gods know all, and proceeds to sing ""Aloha, E Komo Mai"" from """". At the end of the song,"
"Hawaii Aloha ""Hawaii Aloha,"" also called ""Kuu One Hanau,"" is a revered anthem of the native Hawaiian people and Hawaii residents alike. Written by Lorenzo Lyons, a Christian minister who died in 1886, to a tune by James McGranahan, ""Hawai‘i Aloha"" was considered by the Hawaii State Legislature in 1967 and by the Hawaii State Constitutional Convention in 1978 to become the official state song, but ""Hawaii Pono‘ī,"" written by King David Kalākaua and composed by Royal Hawaiian Band Master Henri Berger, was chosen instead. ""Hawaii Aloha"" is typically sung in both small and large, formal and informal gatherings, both"
"glottal stop, it is 'Avaiki; in the Hawaiian Islands, where w is used and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island of the group is named Hawai'i; in Samoa, where s has not been replaced by h, v is used instead of w, and k is replaced with the glottal stop, the largest island is called Savai'i. In the Society Islands, k and ng are replaced by the glottal stop, so the name for the ancestral homeland is pronounced Havai'i. Polynesian languages fall into two branches, Tongic and Nuclear Polynesian. Tongan and Niuean constitute the Tongic branch;"
"tribal lunar calendars. New Zealand English has gained many loanwords from Māori, mainly the names of birds, plants, fishes and places. For example, the kiwi, the national bird, takes it name from ""te reo"". ""Kia ora"" (literally ""be healthy"") is widely adopted greeting of Māori origin, with the intended meaning of ""hello"". It can also mean ""thank you"", or signify agreement with a speaker at a meeting. The Māori greetings ""tēnā koe"" (to one person), ""tēnā kōrua"" (to two people) or ""tēnā koutou"" (to three or more people) are also widely used, as are farewells such as ""haere rā"". The"