Kona
/ˈkoʊ.nə/noun
A female companion or wife in Hawaiian; also used as a place name and brand name in English contexts.
Did you know?In Hawaiian, *kona* is a real native word with multiple meanings depending on context, and it also became famous worldwide through place names like the Kona district of Hawaiʻi.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Polynesian
PPN
*kona
“A term ancestral to Hawaiian forms related to a woman or female companion in some Polynesian languages”
Hawaiian
Haw
kona
“Woman; wife; female companion; also, in other contexts, leeward or dry side”
19th Century
Eng
Kona
“Borrowed into English as a Hawaiian place name and later as a cultural/geographic term”
Modern English
Eng
kona
“Used chiefly as a Hawaiian loanword or proper noun in names, products, and place references”