Research Catalog
Place names of Hawaii
- Title
- Place names of Hawaii / Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, Esther T. Mookini.
- Author
- Pukui, Mary Kawena, 1895-1986
- Publication
- Honolulu : University Press of Hawaii, [1974]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DU622 .P79 1974 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 289 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- How many place names are there in the Hawaiian Islands? Even a rough estimate is impossible. Hawaiians named taro patches, rocks, trees, canoe landings, resting places in the forests, and the tiniest spots where miraculous events are believed to have taken place. And place names are far from static--names are constantly being given to new houses and buildings, streets and towns, and old names are replaced by new ones.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dictionary
- dictionaries.
- Dictionaries
- Gazetteers
- Dictionaries.
- Dictionnaires.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 281-289.
- Contents
- Glossary: Hawaiian words used in the glossary -- Abbreviations used in the glossary -- Glossary. Appendices: Previous studies of place names -- Sources consulted -- Sound changes and the need for salvage -- New names -- Structural analysis -- Semantic analysis -- Words of non-Hawaiian origin and names of streets and buildings -- Connotative value of place names -- Names found elsewhere in Polynesia -- Representation of the lexicon and the grammar in the place names.
- ISBN
- 082480208X
- 9780824802080
- 0824805240
- 9780824805241
- 0082480208 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 73085582
- OCLC
- ocm01042464
- 1042464
- SCSB-254798
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library