Hawaiian Word of the Day: June 2nd

By Leilani Poliʻahu

Published June 1, 2022 at 11:00 PM HST

Pālule-t means t-shirt. And as you may have guessed, it is a relatively new term. Yes, pālule means "shirt," and we just added the modifier "T" following the noun.

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