"Aloha e Kaleo."
Translation:Hello Kaleo.
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Can kula be used to mean door? I’ve heard mainly puka, while kula meaning school or plain/open field. Wehewehe.org doesn’t have this meaning of kula.
I haven't either, and wehewehe doesn't have it. I was responding to https://www.duolingo.com/profile/AlanAbonyi comment above where he translated "e pani i ke kula" as "close the door." I assume it was a typo/brainf@rt for "puka".
(Our Baby Namer link) http://www.ourbabynamer.com/meaning-of-Kaleo.html What does Kaleo mean?
The name Kaleo is of Hawaiian origin.
The meaning of Kaleo is "the sound, voice".
Kaleo is generally used as a boy's name.
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"It's of Hawaiian origin." That means it's not an English name translated into Hawaiian sounds.
(In other words, the English version is Kaleo, too.)
I think maybe you're getting bogged down on the wrong thing. It might be true that the app accepted "greetings" but not "hello" or vice versa. That should be fixed, so click the REPORT button.
The bigger question though is what does a Hawaiian word "mean". Hawaiian is not just a secret coded way to speak English. Words don't have a 1-to-1 correspondence between any two languages. This is masked from us because, in languages like Spanish or Italian, most of the time you can pretty much find such a 1-to-1 correspondence.
But Hawaiian is different. In fact, "Aloha e Kaleo" strictly means neither "hello" nor "greetings." ... "aloha" is a stative verb that expresses "love". So the sentence means literally something like "I am expressing the state of sending love to Kaleo." We wouldn't translate this literally, of course; so "hello, Kaleo" or "greetings, Kaleo" are both reasonable translations of the overall meaning of the sentence.
(link for the name Kaleo) https://www.behindthename.com/name/kaleo
Gender: Masculine (a person's name)
Usage: Hawaiian
Meaning: Means "sound, voice" from Hawaiian ka "the" and leo "sound, voice".