Fellows mentioned in this story: Ka‘iu Kimura

From Aloha State Daily:

You’ll find the word “kāhuli” in the first lines of the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation chant.

Meaning to change, to alter, to overturn, kāhuli — pronounced KAH-hoo-lee — has been chosen by the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo Ka Haka ‘Ula o Ke‘elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language as the 2025 Hawaiian word of the year.

“In the Kumulipo, kāhuli describes the transformation that warmed the earth and unfolded the heavens, catalyzing the formation of the universe itself,” UH said in a recent announcement.

Ka‘iu Kimura, director of the Hawaiian language college, said in the announcement that kāhuli speaks to fundamental transformation, “not surface change, but the kind of shift that reorders everything.”

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