Yes. The word kola was given to me by a native American from the Cherokee Nation in NC.
And just to add, Kola means friend in Sioux. I would know, my name is Kola. :)
Hau Kola is Sioux and it is pronounced like: HOW KO-laah and it basically means "greetings friend" or "hello friend". Although it is important to remember that english is an entirely different language with similar sounds but they are not exactly the same sounds as are pronounced in Sioux. So "Hau" sounds very similar to "How" but they are not exactly the same. When I pronounce "Hau", to me it feels more like a single syllable combination of "haa" + "oo" more than it feels like the english word "how". ~ Zoon
West Africa is the native home to the kola tree.
It depends upon which language they speak. Most speak English now, so "hello" is "hello." But tribes had their own language or family of languages. Estimates place the number of distinct native American languages a t over 1000. Choctaw - Halito. Lakota - Hua Kola Seminole - Istonko
"The native American Indian language" implies that there is only one, when in fact there are more than 2,000 native languages in the Americas, most of which do not include that word.In Lakota (the language of the Teton Sioux), the word haucan signify a greeting or hello used only by men (hau kola, hello my friend); it can mean a formal "yes" (hau, mnin kte, yes I will go there); or it can mean "no" in response to a negative question: Hi shni he? - Did he not come? Hau, hi shni. - No, he did not come.Other native languages (Cherokee, Arapaho, Powhatan, Seneca, Illinois, Pawnee, Arikara, Cheyenne, Tlingit, Maidu, Zuni, Navajo and hundreds more) have entirely different words of greeting and do not use the word hau.
[How cola] - hello friend in Lakota.
Nothing, since it is a Dakota Sioux word - but it is spelled koda. In Lakota it would be kola. Cola is a drink such as Coke or Pepsi. Both koda and kola means friend.
Native to Central and Western Africa, but are now found in the West Indies and Brazil.
Kola Ogunmola died in 1973.
Kola Ogunmola was born in 1925.
Koka Kola was created in 1979.
Kola - town - was created in 1565.
Kola - song - was created in 1997.