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The famous Hawaiian greeting aloha corresponds to Māori aroha, "love, tender emotion". Similarly, the Hawaiian word for kava is ʻawa. Similarities in basic vocabulary may allow speakers from different island groups to achieve a significant degree of understanding of each other's speech.
Hawaiian words and phrases (1 C, 39 P) M. Māori words and phrases (2 C, 73 P) P. Polynesian titles (15 P) S. Samoan words and phrases (1 C, 39 P) Pages in category ...
hāngī: a method of cooking food in a pit; or the occasion at which food is cooked this way (compare the Hawaiian use of the word luau) hongi: traditional Māori greeting featuring the pressing together of noses; hui: a meeting; increasingly being used by New Zealand media to describe business meetings relating to Māori affairs; iwi: tribe ...
Hawaiian (ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi, pronounced [ʔoːˈlɛlo həˈvɐjʔi]) [7] is a Polynesian language and critically endangered language of the Austronesian language family that takes its name from Hawaiʻi, the largest island in the tropical North Pacific archipelago where it developed.
Kapu is the ancient Hawaiian code of conduct of laws and regulations. The kapu system was universal in lifestyle, gender roles, politics and religion. An offense that was kapu was often a capital offense, but also often denoted a threat to spiritual power, or theft of mana .
In Polynesian folklore, Hawaiki (also rendered as ʻAvaiki in Cook Islands, Hawaiki in Māori, Savaiʻi in Samoan, Havaiʻi in Tahitian, Hawaiʻi in Hawaiian) is the original home of the Polynesians, before dispersal across Polynesia. [1]
The following words used in English exist as loanwords from one or more Polynesian languages. Words from Hawaiian and Māori are listed separately at List of English words of Hawaiian origin and List of English words of Māori origin respectively. Kava An intoxicating drink made from plant roots. From Tongan. Mai Tai
Cook Islands Maori English Word-to-word and gloss au Ka ʻaere au ki te ʻāpiʻi āpōpō listen ⓘ I'm going to school tomorrow. (unaccomplished asp.)/ go / I / (prep. goal/destination) / the / learn / tomorrow Ka ʻārote au inanaʻi, nō te ua rā, kua ʻakakore au: I was going to do the ploughing yesterday, but gave it up because of the rain.