>House of the Sun - Haleakala.

Thanks, wow. Haleakala fits the rule I already knew for replacing "l" with "r" to get the Maaori equivalent of a Hawaiian word. The word for house in Maaori is whare. "Wh" is pronounced either as "ph" or as "w", depending on which regional Maaori is being used, and it would be interesting to see if "h" ih Hawaiian equals "wh" in Maaori with the same sort of consistency that "l" equals "r". An interesting coincidence is that in the Far North, the area closest to both Hawaii and Hawaiiki, "wh" is pronounced simply as "h".


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