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the meaning of the hawaiin name Kiany. She's a little girl who needs to have a project in class and it's coming up. But she's in fifth grade and hurt that there's no meaning. Please help me.
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What does my name mean and where does it come from?
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Start your own thread dont just tack your request onto someone elses and do a search before posting as your name is in the data bank
A childs smile is worth more to me than Gold
A childs smile is worth more to me than Gold
This message was edited 9/12/2005, 1:08 PM
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The letter "y" does not exist in the Hawaiian language. I would agree that without further information the best guess is that this child's parents modified the well-known Hawaiian name Kiana to create Kiany. But since most native Hawaiian names are created from words in the Hawaiian language, there is an outside chance that they created it from the word "kiani". The definition of that word from a Hawaiian online dictionary is found below:
kiani
vt. To flick, flip, wave gently, as the hand overhead in a hula gesture; to wheel and dip, as a soaring bird; frisky. Cf. ani, to wave. ʻAi kiani, to nab at food.
kiani
vt. To flick, flip, wave gently, as the hand overhead in a hula gesture; to wheel and dip, as a soaring bird; frisky. Cf. ani, to wave. ʻAi kiani, to nab at food.
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