"Aia i hea kāu kini ʻaiō?"

Translation: Where is your lunch pail?

[jjx360]

No one in Hawaiʻi says lunch pail... Lol

[KiUlv]

Yeah, I never heard anyone say that, either. Sounds very 1800s.

[Endgator]

used to live in Hawaii and I have never heard anyone say "lunch pail" xD

[KadookaLor]

Lunch pail is not a modern term but I heard it growing up in the 60's. My own father carried a lunch pail - small circular metal container that was stacked (at least two components) and had a metal cover and a handle like a pail. We referred to it in pidgin as "kaukau tin".

[RonRGB]

kini ʻaiō

[MK] 1 n Lunch pail. Niʻihau. Also kini ʻai.

https://manomano.io/definition/16788

[Puanani51]

I looked up the origin in Pukui dictionary. The kini in this case is a transliteration of the English word tin...from plantation days when workers brought lunches in tin pails. She also calls it 'kini 'ai, which makes sense. Where did 'o' come from?