# Polynesian

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polynesian/343774>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polynesian/343774 "2006-02-10T00:26:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ezstrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@Ezstrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ezstrete)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polynesian/343774/1 "2006-02-10T00:26:54Z")

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Back in '39 my then girl friend [she still is and is sitting right here beside me as I type] and I spent a whole half-a-buck on a movie and ice cream cones as an evening out on the neighborhood.

The Movie was “Hawaii”----------and there was a phrase in the theme music which I would like some Kane or wahine to interpret for me

I believe it to be a welcome ,and an invitation,into ones home-------------But can anyone tell me EXACTLY what it means?

With the appropiate allowances for Haoli spelling it goes like this:

“Kome mai no kaua i ke hali melikahao”.

Can someone translate it for me-----before the old language disappears from the Islands completely?

And before I go all pupuli[?]

Mahalo

EZ  
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**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polynesian/343774/2 "2006-02-10T09:58:10Z")

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E komo mai no kaua i ke hale mele ka hao?

Welcome, you two, in to the house of music-making? 😕

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**Author:** ![Ezstrete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ea924/32.png) [@Ezstrete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ezstrete)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/polynesian/343774/3 "2006-02-10T15:55:57Z")

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> [@ouryL](#):
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> E komo mai no kaua i ke hale mele ka hao?
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> Welcome, you two, in to the house of music-making? 😕

From an old[very] Pacific service Marine,

Mahalo nui loa from the main.

EZ