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Thank you all, Kee-AH-nah then

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I have added this information in the database (though really I don't know if firsthand), just so that other people interested won't have to seach for it (I know that I did not understand to do so earlier).

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"But it’s all right now.
I learned my lesson well.
You see you can’t please everyone
So you got to please yourself."
Rick Nelson, GardenParty

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"It does not become me to make myself smaller than I am." (Edith Södergran 1891-1923)

Cleveland is correct; Kiana does not rhyme with "dai-ah-nah." The 'i' in Hawaiian is always an 'ee' sound. Thus, Kiana is pronounced 'kee-AH-nah."

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"Les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le coeur." -- Le Petit Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The "transliterations" of "English" names into Hawaiian ones don't necessarily preserve the vowel sounds of the original names. The pronunciation of Kiana in Hawaiian would be "kee-ah-nah". To get "Kye-ana" in Hawaiian I believe you'd have to use the spelling Kaiana.

kee-AHN-ah is how I'd heard it pronounced, but

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I came across an article stating it was kai-ANN-uh (as in Kiana, Alaska). According to that same article, Kiana means "a place where three rivers meet,” at least, it seems, for the Kobuk River Kowagmiut Inupiat Eskimos (see link below).

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http://www.dced.state.ak.us/dca/commdb/CF_BLOCK.cfm?Comm_Boro_Name=Kiana&Data_Type=Overview

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Hope this helps.

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"What is a friend? A single soul in two bodies." -Aristotle

I think it's kee-ah-nah. Not sure on stress, sorry.

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Miranda

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