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Ka ʻŌlelo Hoʻākāka

As discussed and described previously, the ʻohana is the extended Hawaiian family. Similar to the terms kupuna, makua, and keiki, sibling terms are also reflective of cultural practices and perspectives. There are kaikuaʻana, who are older siblings of the same gender, and kaikaina, younger siblings of the same gender. Therefore, among the wahine sibling and peer group, there are kaikuaʻana, older female siblings, and kaikaina, younger female siblings. Basically, these terms refer to older and younger sisters when used in reference to a wahine. When referring to the siblings of a kāne, the same terms, kaikuaʻana and kaikaina, are used to refer to older and younger male siblings.

Also, for each group, kāne and wahine, there is a single term to refer to siblings of the opposite gender. The term kaikunāne is used to refer to the male siblings of the wahine group, the brothers of the women; the term kaikuahine is used to refer to the female siblings of the kāne group, the sisters of the men. In order to indicate older or younger siblings of the opposite sex, the terms hānau mua and hānau hope are used (e.g., a kaikuahine hānau mua is an older sister of a male and a kaikuahine hānau hope is a younger sister of a male).

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