# Hawaiʻi
## English
### Proper noun

Hawaiʻi
* (chiefly Hawaii) Alternative spelling of Hawaii: a state of the United States.
** 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.
** 2020 March 22, David Ige, quotee, “Hawaii to quarantine all arrivals to the state for 14 days”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 2020-12-09‎:“With the majority of Hawaiʻi’s COVID-19 cases linked to travel, it is critical that we further mitigate the spread of the virus by both residents and visitors who are coming from out-of-state,” Gov. David Ige said in a statement. “This plan was developed in collaboration with our county mayors and Hawaiʻi’s business, community and visitor industry leaders.”
** 2022 January 13, Andrea Malji, Michael A. Allen, Carla Martinez Machain, “The Navy’s fuel leak in Hawaiʻi outraged local activists. That’s happened around the globe.”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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.
** 2022 July 1, Will McGough, “Planning a dream trip to Hawai'i? What's new on the islands”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 2022-07-01, Travel‎:With Covid-19 regulations a thing of the past, Hawaiʻi is primed to be a top destination in 2022 thanks to a load of fresh offerings.
** 2023 February 22, Grae Gleason, “Tour 6 of Hawaiʻi's volcanoes in this immersive photo gallery”, in USA Today‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 May 2023:In the United States, Hawaiʻi offers tourists some of the country’s best volcano-viewing experiences. In fact, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park encompasses two of the world’s most active volcanoes — Kīlauea and Mauna Loa.
** 2023 May 11, Darren Incorvaia, “How Deep-Diving Sharks Stay Warm Will Take Your Breath Away”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-11, Trilobites‎:Scalloped hammerhead sharks off the Kona coast of Hawaiʻi Island. […] Mark Royer, a shark biologist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, was inspired to investigate the scalloped hammerhead’s secret heating technique after noticing how deep they were diving during a different research project. He attached a package of sensors near the dorsal fins of six hammerheads near Hawaii.

#### 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

* ↑ 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

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *Sawaiki.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /haˈwai̯.ʔi/, [həˈʋɐj.ʔi], [həˈʋɛj.ʔi] (rapid speech)
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### Proper noun

Hawaiʻi
* Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands (an archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, between North America and Oceania)
* (specifically) Hawaii, Hawaii Island (an island in Hawaii archipelago, Pacific Ocean, of Hawaii County, State of Hawaii, United States)
* Hawaii (an insular state in the United States, formerly a territory)

#### Descendants

* → Chinook Jargon: oihe (or via English)
* → English: Hawaii, Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawai`i

### Noun

Hawaiʻi
* Hawaiian (person)