Hawaiʻi
English
Proper noun
Hawaiʻi
- (chiefly Hawaii) Alternative spelling of Hawaii
- 1996, H. Douglas Pratt, A Pocket Guide to Hawaiʻi's Birds, Taiwan: Mutual Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:
- If confine your Hawaiʻi vacation to resort areas such as Waikiki, Kaʻanapali, or Kona, you are unlikely to see a native honey-creeper. But birds are always around (even sometimes on your breakfast table!) and a little attention to them will broaden your tropical horizons. In this section we will take you on a bird tour of the Hawaiʻi seen by most visitors, and the only Hawaiʻi known to a surprisingly large number of residents, most of whom, after all, dwell in cities and towns.
- 2022 January 13, Malji, Andrea; Michael A. Allen; Carla Martinez Machain, “The Navy’s fuel leak in Hawaiʻi outraged local activists. That’s happened around the globe.”, in Washington Post, archived from the original on 06 May 2022, Monkey Cage:
- In November, a 14,000-gallon fuel leak at a Navy storage facility contaminated much of the drinking water on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaiʻi, a leak that may cause irreparable damage to the island’s water supplies.
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Usage notes
The ʻokina (ʻ) — in standard English typography 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.”[1]
Derived terms
References
- Bobby Camara (2006), “Appendix F: Geographic names: Correct Spellings of Geographic (Place) Names”, in HaySmith, L., F. L. Klasner, S. H. Stephens, and G. H. Dicus, Pacific Island Network vital signs monitoring plan, Natural Resource Report NPS/PACN/NRR—2006/003 National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado.
Hawaiian
Etymology
Proper noun
Hawaiʻi
- The Hawaiian Islands, a chain of islands in the Pacific Ocean between North America and Oceania.
- (specifically) The largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
- An Oceanian state of the United States of America comprising much of the Hawaiian Islands. The capital is Honolulu, on the island of Oahu.
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