Hawaiian Word of the Day: September 28th

By Leilani Poliʻahu

Published September 28, 2022 at 12:00 AM HST

Piʻi mele, two words that used together mean “musical scale.” Just as we sometimes call the scale do-re-mi in English, in Hawaiian we sometimes call the piʻi mele by the first three notes: pā-kō-lī.

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