Hualalai

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Hawaiian Hualālai, from ka (“the”) + hua (“fruit, seed”) + a variant of laʻi (“calm”), the name of one of the volcano's craters.[1]

Proper noun[edit]

Hualalai

  1. An active volcano on Hawaii Island.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Father Joachim Maréchal, letter to Abbé Barré (1854), translated and published in Annals of the Propagation of the Faith, Vol. XVI, p. 280.
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