What is the longest hawaiian word?

Answer 1

Humuhumunukunukuapua'a (22 letters, and the name of a trigger fish) is often said to be the longest word, but there is another fish called lauwiliwilinukunuku'oi'oi (25 letters). There may a word longer than this. And incidentally, the 'okina (depicted by '), known in English as a glottal stop, is considered a letter in Hawaiian and so is included in the letter count. There are also personal names, formed by combining words into a phrase, which can be even longer. But since personal names are proper nouns and not common nouns, they would not count as the longest Hawaiian word. Longest name, perhaps, but not longest word.