Post #253133 by virani on Fri, Sep 8, 2006 3:04 PM

On 2006-09-07 14:15, pablus wrote:

I've also heard that "Mai Kai" means "the best."
And I've heard it means "the sea."

Mai Kai is not tahitian, as there is no "K" in Tahiti. But the hawaiian K is the tahitian T.
From my tahitian language class, I've learned that "Mai Tai" means good, nice... "Roa" means very, and "aè" is a superlative, meaning more.
So, I don't know exactly, but I guess we can translate it by "more than very good", wich is close to the best.