Hawaiian names

[Blue Hawaiian]

Hi there =0) a friend from work came back two days ago from her trip to
Maui. She had a book of Hawaiian names ( it translates english names to
Hawaiian ), but my name was not in there. I'm just curious, does anyone
know what the name "Samantha" is in Hawaiian? Thanks, and I'm sorry if
I'm bothering you.

[Michael J Wise]

Blue Hawaiian wrote:

> I'm just curious, does anyone know what the name "Samantha" is in Hawaiian?

Better question would be, "What is it in English"?
(i.e., "What does the name actually mean?")

Phonetically, if you introduced yourself to someone who only spoke `O~lelo
Hawai`i (lit. "Language of Hawai`i"), and they were to sound out what they
heard, they'd probably say that your name sounded something like:

Kama~naka

> Thanks, and I'm sorry if I'm bothering you.

Not at all. Hau`oli MaKahiki Hou! (that's "Happy New Year", BTW)

Aloha mai Nai`a!
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[Gregory Young]

In article <nortle-946...@news.lava.net>, BlueHa...@webtv.net (Blue Hawaiian) wrote:
>
>Hi there =0) a friend from work came back two days ago from her trip to
>Maui. She had a book of Hawaiian names ( it translates english names to

>Hawaiian ), but my name was not in there. I'm just curious, does anyone
>know what the name "Samantha" is in Hawaiian? Thanks, and I'm sorry if
>I'm bothering you.

According to Hawaiian names English names by Eileen M. Root this is what you
want:

"SAMUEL, SAM and the feminine SAMUELA, SAMANTHA are all from the Hebrew. The
name means God has heard. The Biblical SAMUEL was so wise his name came to be
a synonym for a judge. In Hawaiian God has heard would be UA LOHE KE AKUA."

Hope this is what you wanted.

[Blue Hawaiian]

Well, from what I've been told, my name is Aramaic ( old Russian,
perhaps), and meand "one who listens", or " good listener ". Also in
hebrew it means "god has told" and "meadow". I've gotten many different
meanings for it.