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Hawaiian Word of the Day

Hawaiian Word of the Day: April 30th

Our Hawaiian Word of the Day is moku. We often use moku to mean a district, an island, severed portion, or fragment, or as the root for other common words such as mokuahi for steamship, moku??ina for state, mokulele for airplane, or a mokulu?u for a submarine, a diving ship. But the first use of moku means to be cut, severed, amputated, broken in two. There are many opportunities every day to use that common word, moku.

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