December 2010
8 posts
Hey guys, I learned a word today
Through my random searches on the interweb I came across the Hawaiian word, “Haole” pronounced like Hal-lay. Wikipedia says:
A common popular etymology claim is that the word is derived from hāʻole, literally meaning “no breath”. Some Hawaiians[who?] say that because foreigners did not know or use the honi (the Hawaiian word for “kiss”), a Polynesian and...