Poliʻahu

Hawaiian Etymology From haw poli<t:bosom> ʻahu<t:garment> clothed bosom, referring to the snow cloak of Mauna Kea. Pronunciation Proper noun haw proper noun haw Hawaiian mythology a snow goddess of Mauna Kea haw female,male<q:sometimes> Hawaiian References Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, pages 396-397. Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Poliahu (in the old orthography) occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 2 women and 6 men, all of them on the Big Island.