{"id":183381,"date":"2023-09-12T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=183381"},"modified":"2023-09-12T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T02:41:53","slug":"hawaiian-word-of-the-week-honi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/12\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-honi\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Word of the Week: Honi"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap-post\"><figure class=\"wp-block-embed wp-block-embed-youtube is-type-video is-provider-youtube epyt-figure\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_40145\"  width=\"676\" height=\"676\"  data-origwidth=\"676\" data-origheight=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5OaIDleuJb8?enablejsapi=1&origin=https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu&rel=0&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"Hawaiian Word of the Week: Honi\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/figure><\/div>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=honi\">Honi<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&#8212;To kiss; a kiss; formerly, to touch noses on the side in greeting.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"blocklink\"><strong>Previous &#699;\u014dlelo<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/05\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-halia-2\/\"><span aria-label=\"Halia\">Hali&#699;a<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/29\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-hoopili\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hoopili\">Ho&#699;opili<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/22\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-imi\/\">&#699;Imi<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/15\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-hapai\/\">H\u0101pai<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/08\/08\/hawaiian-word-of-the-week-waimakalehua\/\">Waimakalehua<\/a><br \/>\nAll <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/olelo-of-the-week\/\">&#699;\u014clelo of the Week<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hugs and kisses are the most common form of greeting you can find in the islands. Growing up, I would mainly hear this word from my auntie, who would wrap me in her arms and sigh, &lsquo;Honi honi,&rsquo; before pressing a kiss to my cheek while sniffing my skin.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;Janica Marie Pascua, Communications Specialist, Office of Communications, University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> System<\/p>\n<p>For more information on other elements of the definition and usage, go to the <abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> Hilo <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/wehe\/?q=honi\"><em>Wehewehe Wikiwiki<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg\" alt=\"Olelo of the week\" width=\"676\" height=\"160\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-154991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/olelo-of-the-week-160-130x31.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honi&#8212;To kiss; a kiss; formerly, to touch noses on the side in greeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[61,33,1057,62,63,64,65,1530,14,9,60,947,59,56,66],"class_list":["post-183381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-hawaii-community-college","tag-hawaiian","tag-hawaiian-language","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-kauai-community-college","tag-leeward-community-college","tag-olelo-of-the-week","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-manoa","tag-maui-college","tag-uh-system","tag-uh-west-oahu","tag-video-2","tag-windward-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183381"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183454,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183381\/revisions\/183454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}