Etymograph

English

Ho'oleilana

Ho'oleilana comes from Hawaiian hoʻoleilei ka lana ‘sent sounds of awakening’.

  1. Hawaiianmodernhoʻoleilei ka lana‘sent sounds of awakening’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2023Ho'oleilana

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Hawaiianmodernhoʻoleilei ka lana‘sent sounds of awakening’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2023Ho'oleilana

Earliest quotation: 2023, R. Brent Tully, Ho'oleilana: An Individual Baryon Acoustic Oscillation?: “In any event, this apparent ring structure at a…”

The story

Coined by R. Brent Tully, Cullan Howlett, and Daniel Pomarède, in 2023; see quotation below.

Every English word from Hawaiian hoʻoleilei ka lana

Today it means

name Ho'oleilana A structure in local Universe; An assembly of superclusters and voids, forming a spherical assemblage of matter with a central peak, roughly 1-billion-lightyears across, located next to, but not containing, Laniakea, our local supercluster where the Earth is contained within. Thought to be a baryon acoustic oscillation (“BAO”), the first such discovered, and the nearest such found.

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Etymograph / Hawaiian hoʻoleilei ka lana / Ho'oleilana

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