Author: Root, Eileen
Format: Softcover

Eileen M. Root is a librarian and lives in Kaneohe with her husband Umiumi puhuluhulu, also known as Barry, and an overweight Maine Coon cat Popilikia, also known as Trouble. About this book she says: I became interested in the subject of Hawaiian names because the question "Do you have a book about Hawaiian names?" is asked repeatedly at the public library. A little reseach revealed that what was available consisted mostly of list of Hawaiianized English names. These names seemed an insult to the Hawaiian language and at time were even an insult to the person who had Hawaiianized his or her english name.