Re: AKO



Pake boy wrote:
> <aesthete8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>
>> Is this a Hawaiian or Chinese last name?
>>
>> Don't most Chinese last names have only one syllable?
>>
>
> "Go" or "Ko" means brother in Cantonese, "Ah" is a term of familiarity.
> In the olden days in Hawaii, a Pake might be called Ah Ko by their sibs
> and by acquaintenances. Others might be call Ah Gin or Ah Gan (I
> forget
> what those names mean). Eventually many of these Chinese names became
> "Hawaiianized" to Ako, Akina, Akana, etc. to be added to the Hawaiian
> Akos, Akinas and Akanas. Many of the early Chinese intermarried with
> Hawaiians anyway so it didn't really make a difference what their
> original ethnicity of their family was. So the answer is "both".

So does that mean that Diane Ako could be:

1) A pure Hawaiian, or

2) A pure Chinese, or

3) Chinese-Hawaiian?

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