Hawaiʻi

== English == === Proper noun === Hawaiʻi (chiefly Hawaii) Alternative spelling of Hawaii: a state of the United States. ==== Usage notes ==== The ʻokina (ʻ) — in English typography often represented with the straight apostrophe (') — indicates a glottal stop in Hawaiian and Hawaiian English. Legal information: the spellings of National Park Service units in Hawaii were changed by legislation to include the ʻokina; however, the name of the state itself was not, hence not written with an ʻokina because the Statehood Act in 1959 used the spelling “Hawaii”—thus a Natural Resource Report states, “the name of the state is Hawaii, while the name of the island of the same name is Hawai‘i.” ==== Derived terms ==== Hawaiʻian === References === == Hawaiian == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /haˈwai̯.ʔi/, [həˈʋɐj.ʔi], (rapid speech) [həˈʋɛj.ʔi] === Proper noun === Hawaiʻi Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands (an archipelago of the Pacific Ocean, between North America and Oceania) (specifically) Hawaii, Hawaii Island (an island of Hawaii archipelago, Pacific Ocean, of Hawaii County, State of Hawaii, United States) Hawaii (an insular state of the United States, formerly a territory) ==== Descendants ==== → Chinook Jargon: oihe (or via English) → English: Hawaii, Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawai`i === Noun === Hawaiʻi Hawaiian (person)