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[MyManao]

what Aloha really is and means.

From.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha

Aloha (/əˈloʊhɑː/ ə-LOH-hah, Hawaiian: [əˈlohə]) is the Hawaiian word for love, affection, peace, compassion and mercy, that is commonly used as a greeting.[1][2] It has a deeper cultural and spiritual significance to native Hawaiians, for whom the term is used to define a force that holds together existence.[3][4]

The word is found in all Polynesian languages and always with the same basic meaning of "love, compassion, sympathy, kindness."[5] Its use in Hawaii has a seriousness lacking in the Tahitianand Samoan meanings.[6] Mary Kawena Pukui wrote that the "first expression" of aloha was between a parent and child.[5]

Lorrin Andrews wrote the first Hawaiian dictionary, called A Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language.[7] In it, he describes aloha as "A word expressing different feelings: love, affection, gratitude, kindness, pity, compassion, grief, the modern common salutation at meeting; parting".[8] Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Hoyt Elbert's Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian also contains a similar definition. Anthropologist Francis Newton states that "Aloha is a complex and profound sentiment. Such emotions defy definition".[6] Anna Wierzbicka concludes that the term has "no equivalent in English".

Which, as I pointed out earlier, I think Nana Veary sums it up better than most..