Kanaloa
Translingual
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Etymology
From Hawaiian Kanaloa (“the god Kanaloa”).
Proper noun
Kanaloa f
Hypernyms
- (tribe): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, fabids - clades; Fabales - order; Fabaceae - family; Mimosoideae - subfamily; Mimoseae - tribe
Hyponyms
- (genus): Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. (the soles species)
Further reading
Kanaloa kahoolawensis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Kanaloa (Fabaceae) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Kanaloa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Hawaiian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- (Hawaiian mythology) One of the four major gods; god of kawa and the sea.
- (rare today) a male or female given name from Hawaiian.
References
- Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 387
- Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Kanaloa occurs in 19th century marriage records as the only name of 20 women and 11 men.
Categories:
- Translingual terms derived from Hawaiian
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Taxonomic names (genus)
- Taxonomic names needing vernacular names
- Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Polynesian
- Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation
- haw:Hawaiian mythology
- Hawaiian given names
- Hawaiian male given names
- Hawaiian male given names from Hawaiian
- Hawaiian female given names
- Hawaiian female given names from Hawaiian