E komo mai — meaning and pronunciation
Pronounced /eh KOH-moh mah-ee/ — syllables: eh · KOH · moh · mah · ee
Meaning
Come in, welcome. An invitation to enter or join.
How to pronounce E komo mai
Hawaiian vowels are always sounded separately. A kahakō (line above a vowel) lengthens it; the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in “uh-oh”.
Frequently asked
What does E komo mai mean?
Come in, welcome. An invitation to enter or join.
How do you pronounce E komo mai?
E komo mai is pronounced /eh KOH-moh mah-ee/ — broken into syllables: eh · KOH · moh · mah · ee. Each vowel in Hawaiian is sounded separately, and the ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop, like the pause in "uh-oh".
Is E komo mai a phrase?
Yes — E komo mai is classified as a phrase in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, within the Greetings category.
Where does this definition come from?
Definitions and pronunciations on hawaiian-words.com are drawn from the authoritative Pukui-Elbert Hawaiian Dictionary (rev. ed. 1986), the standard scholarly reference for ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.