Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗name
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe sixth largest island of Hawaii, mostly privately owned.
From Hawaiian Lānaʻi, probably from lā (“day”) + naʻi (“conquest”), usually taken to reference an occasion when the wayward Mauian prince Kauluāʻau supposedly brought order to the island by expelling its ghosts and demons.
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- Borrowed-form mentionLānaʻihaw
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