Hello and welcome back. So today we'll be talking about coffee and not just any coffee We're going to be talking about the world famous Gona coffee. That's right this one and Where it comes from okay? So before you can call coffee Gona coffee It has to come from a very very specific place the coffee beans have to be grown in Hawaii Number one number two not just anywhere on Hawaii, but it has to be on the big island of Hawaii And number three not just anywhere on the big island. It has to be grown on the west coast also known as the Gona area And let's take a look where this word Gona comes from okay? So let's look at let's look at the map of jiu of Hawaii and see the geography and where we are exactly So Hawaii the big island and red if we magnify it it looks like that so that you see if you see the white space This white space over here That's the big island. This island that's been enlarged and the red area is the north Gona district Okay, that's This one North Gona district and the south Gona district is this one and these are the areas where you grow Gona coffee Okay now if you look at the map you can see that There are several extinct volcanoes in the area who are La Le and Maudeloa Where they generally grow the the world famous Gona coffee now. Let's take a look at the word Gona And where it comes from okay? Because this is a very very common word throughout the austrian-egent languages It can be found all the way to Madagascar and it's very commonly used in Malay although you wouldn't recognize it because of all the sound changes And the evolution of these Of the pronunciation over many many thousands of years, but we'll take a look at where it comes from and I think you'll be shocked at Uh That your language actually uses this word a lot as well, okay? So let's look at the word uh Gona Let's see where it comes from But first things first, okay Gona is also the location of the famous beach 69 And the Ironman World Championship just to let you know, okay? So that's some idea where we are going now Onto the west coast of Hawaii. So what does Gona actually mean? Okay, so if you see Hawaii in dictionary will list this Gona in Hawaii it means the leeward side of an island Yes, I can hear your blank stairs and and all that leeward literally means basically It's the side of the island that is shielded from the wind so the windward side is where the wind blows in Okay, so on it if you look at big island like like this so In Hawaii the leeward side the corner side is the one that's protected from the wind and that's the west coast Okay, the wind normally flows in from the northeast and that's called the Kuo-Olo Okay, so the Kuo-Olo is the windward side. That's where the wind comes in and why it's important because Kuo-Olo is where the rain usually comes from And the corner side usually has less rain in its dryer. That's why people plant coffee there So the weather and all that so the drier side is generally the Gona side the wetter side and the windier side is the Kuo-Olo All right, so let's look at the Gona side and some very very interesting things going on there phonologically All right, so the wet Gona in Hawaiian if you remember from the previous videos The K in Hawaiian is usually the tea in Maori so in Maori it's actually Tonga Okay, yes, I know what you're thinking as in the country called Tonga Tonga So in in Hawaiian Gona means the leeward or the protected side of the island in Maori and also in Tongan Okay, Tonga means the south Because in generally I think in because of the the word Gona or Tonga Changes depending on the geography of where you are which island you are and your location and then you of course use a different different word sorry a different Meaning of the word so in this case in Maori and Tongan Tonga means the south Because the wind generally comes and the rain in these areas comes from the north So that's why it's south and where do they come from if we go back five six thousand years It comes from the proto-Austrian region what Tenga so Tonga Tonga Tonga and where does it you know where one of the other words the other languages that have this What then that well Malay has Tonga which means the middle right Indonesian also has the word Tenga if you look at the word Sort of the meaning is like protected and and generally if you look at the the islands of Say the big islands for example The coastal areas are the ones to get the most wind and rain so therefore the middle part is the most protected one That's why that's why the connection between Tenga and Tonga right and Moving further along the other islands this the same word is found over and over again in different permutation so for example in Ilocano you have Tenga in the northern part of the Philippines in the south you have Tonga in the Sevoano And if you move along to all the way to Manigasca you have Tena tena which means the middle or halfway or half same thing A little bit funny thing happened with Tagalog as the languages evolved Tagalog decided to switch the tea with the Nga and you get Gidna which also comes from Tenga a simple word you know Tenga evolving into Leeward side the south the middle all these words all come from the same origins Please like share and subscribe If you enjoyed this and I promise I'll come back with longer videos in future, okay? 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