Keiki

[Wilson Gray]

Does anyone outside of the Islands have a clue as to what it means and how
it's used?


On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com>wrote:

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