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From Hawaiian 'Hawai'i' from the Polynesian word Hawaiki said to mean Place of the Gods

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The word "Hawaii" is believed to have originated from the Hawaiian language itself, derived from the Proto-Polynesian word "Hawaiki" which refers to the ancestral homeland of the Polynesians.

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