Inoa | Name(s)
Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi kua uli, Hawaiʻi nui kua uli, Hawaiʻi nui o Keawe, Moku o Keawe, Big Island
Hiʻona ʻāina | Land characteristic: Mokupuni
Hiʻona ʻāina o loko o kēia wahi | Feature(s) located within this place: Hilo; Puna (Hawaiʻi); Kaʻū; Kona (Hawaiʻi); Kohala; Hāmākua; Maunakea; Mauna Loa; Kīlauea; Hualalai
Hiʻona ʻāina nona kēia wahi | Feature(s) that contain this place: Pae ʻāina o Hawaiʻi
Hōʻuluʻulu manaʻo
ʻO Hawaiʻi ka mokupuni nui loa o ka pae ʻāina o Hawaiʻi. Aia ma ka ʻaoʻao hema o ka pae ʻāina. ʻO Wākea lāua ʻo Papahānaumoku ka makua o Hawaiʻi. Kapa ʻia kēia mokupuni iā Hawaiʻi Nui Kua Uli a me Moku o Keawe a i kēia mau lā lohe pū ʻia ʻo Big Island ʻO Maunakea ka mauna kiʻekiʻe loa o ka mokupuni. . Mau nō ka hū ʻana o ka pele ma ʻelua wahi o Hawaiʻii, ʻo ia hoʻi ʻo Mauna Loa a me Kīlauea. ʻO Mokuʻāweoweo ka home ʻo Pele. Aia ma laila kāna lua pele ma Mauna Loa. ʻO Hualalai kekahi mauna nui o kēia mokupuni a aia ma ka ʻaoʻao kona o Hawaiʻi. ʻO ʻAlenuihāhā ke kai ma waena o Hawaiʻi a me Maui. No Kohala ma Hawaiʻi ʻo Kamehameha Paiʻea, ke aliʻi kaulana loa o kēia pae ʻāina. Kaulana kēia mokupuni no ka ulu ʻana o nā kumu ʻōhiʻa a me ka nani o nā lehua.
Description
Largest island in the Hawaiian group, 76 miles wide, 93 miles long, with an area of 4,038 square miles and a population in 1970 of 63,468. Hilo is the major town and county seat. County and collective name for the entire island group (1970 population 769,913). This name occurs in many parts of Polynesia (Havaiki: New Zealand, North Marquesas; ʻAvaiki: Cook Islands; Savaiʻi: Samoa). In some areas, but not in Hawaiʻi, it is the name of the homeland, or of the underworld to which the dead went. Epithets for the island of Hawaiʻi: Hawaiʻi nui a Keawe, great Hawaiʻi of Keawe (a chief); Hawaiʻi kua uli (PH 222), green-backed Hawaiʻi. (Place Names of Hawaiʻi)
ʻŌlelo kuhikuhi
E koho i ka huaʻōlelo ʻo “Hawaiʻi” no nā kumuwawiwai pili i ka mokupuni o Hawaiʻi. E koho iā “Ka Pae ʻĀina o Hawaiʻi” no nā kumuwaiwai pili i ka pae ʻāina o Hawaiʻi, a i ʻole i ka moku ʻāina o Hawaiʻi.
Instructions
Choose this term for any resources about the island of Hawaiʻi within the Hawaiian archipelago. Not to be confused with “Pae ʻāina o Hawaiʻi” or “Moku ʻʻāina o Hawaiʻi”
Moʻokūʻauhau | Genealogy
Akua | Deity: Pele; Līlīnoe; Waiau; Wākea; ʻUmi; Līloa; Hiʻiakaikapoliopele; Poliʻahu
Hālau | Group/school: Hale o Keawe
ʻOhana | Family: Kanakaʻole; Kamehameha; Kahoupokāne; , Kalaniʻōpuʻu; Alapaʻinui; Kekūhaupiʻo
Hana | Practice: Mahiʻai; Lawaiʻa, Hula; Heʻe nalu
Kūmole | Source(s)
Hoʻopili ʻia i | Applied to: Ka hoike a na Komisina no ka Hoeueu i na Loaa Mahiai Kuloko no ke Aupuni. Ka mokupuni o Hawaii, Woman of the fire and woman of the water, Some Traditional Native Hawaiian Bird Hunting Practices on Hawai‘i Island
Mea haku | Created by: Na ka hui ʻimi naʻauao o Ka Wai Hāpai