{"id":47236,"count":1,"description":"Aloha in the Hawaiian language means affection, love, peace, compassion and mercy. Since the middle of the 19th century, it also has come to be used as an English greeting to say goodbye and hello. Currently, it is mostly used in the sense of hello.\nIt is also the state nickname of Hawaii, the \"Aloha State\".\nThe word aloha derives from the Proto-Polynesian root *qarofa, and ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. It has cognates in other Polynesian languages, such as Samoan alofa and M\u0101ori aroha, also meaning \"love.\" \nA folk etymology claims that it derives from a compound of the Hawaiian words alo meaning \"presence\", \"front\", \"face\", or \"share\"; and ha, meaning \"breath of life\" or \"essence of life.\" Although alo does indeed mean \"presence\" etc., the word for breath is spelled with a macron or kahak\u014d over the a (h\u0101) whereas the word aloha does not have a long a.\nThe use of the word as a greeting has been reconstructed to Proto-Polynesian. Before contact with the West, other words...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/aloha\/","name":"Aloha","slug":"aloha","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/47236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=47236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}