Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ʻokina

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ʻok-i-na
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

3

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative spelling of okina.

Example Sentences

"I was aware of the ʻokina and kahakō from many previous trips to Hawaiʻi and I had dealt with similar issues back in California related to English-language media using the Spanish tilde and accents. […] So I took a closer look and it turns out that today technology is our friend: ʻOkina and kahakō don’t seem to stump searches anymore and our content management system accommodates them all the way from our keyboards to your cellphones and computers."
"The state said that of the nearly 2,000 streets under HDOT’s jurisdiction, over half require the addition of Hawaiian diacritical markings, and that the use of kahakō and ʻokina can drastically change the meaning of a word."

Etymology

Etymology tree Hawaiian ʻoki Hawaiian -na Hawaiian ʻokinaubor. English ʻokina Unadapted borrowing from Hawaiian ʻokina (“cutting off, separation”).

Questions

What does ʻokina mean?: Alternative spelling of okina.
Where does ʻokina come from?: Etymology tree Hawaiian ʻoki Hawaiian -na Hawaiian ʻokinaubor. English ʻokina Unadapted borrowing from Hawaiian ʻokina (“cutting off, separation”).

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