Keiki

[Benjamin Barrett]

Surely, it's past time to add this to dictionaries. The OED doesn't have it and Wiktionary has it only as a Hawaiian language word.

In Hawai'i, the word is used freely in English as this article shows:

http://mauinow.com/2013/05/06/video-hawaiian-immersion-lottery-at-pa%CA%BBia-school-postponed/

Benjamin Barrett
Seattle, WA
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