Aloha in all Polynesian languages and always with the same basic meaning of: love, compassion, sympathy and kindness although the use in Hawaii has a seriousness lacking in the Tahitian and Samoan meanings. Its beginnings may be seen in the Maori definition as "love of kin". Mary Kawena Pukui wrote that the "first expression" of "aloha" was between a parent and child. The word has become a part of the English vocabulary in an awkward misuse. The term is now part of English vocabulary. "The Oxford English Dictionary" defined the word as a "greeting" like "welcome" and "farewell" using a number
What Cheer, Iowa the site that would become Providence in 1636, he was greeted by Narragansett Native Americans with "What Cheer, "Netop"". "Netop" was the Narragansett word for "friend", and the Narragansetts had picked up the "what cheer" greeting from English settlers. It is possible that the connection between What Cheer, Iowa and What Cheer, the shibboleth of Rhode Island, was merely coincidental - the entries for these subjects are adjacent but not connected in the 1908 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana. What Cheer has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. Robert Forsyth, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, came to America