Hawaiian Endearments

[seizansha]

the grandmother in my story is full-blood Hawaiian and the grandfather was stationed there in the military. i'm not setting the story in Hawaii, i've never been there so i couldn't do it properly, but i need a tiny bit of help with the language

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[twilight2000]

Consider this site
or this site which has a couple of good links to Hawaiian words/dictionaries ;>

[ymfaery]

I don't have the dictionary handy right now, but off-hand I recall "tutu kane" means grandfather, and "tutu" is often used for grandmother. "Keiki" is the general word for child.