CARINA

CARINA and the variants CAREEN, CARIN, CARINNA, CARYN all find their origin in the Latin word meaning the keel. In Hawaiian IWIKA'ELE means keel. IWI literally means bones. In ancient Hawaii the bones of the dead were considered very sacred, thus there are many Hawaiian expressions with IWI taking on the meaning of 'life'. The Hawaiianized-English of this name is KALINA which is a native Hawaiian word meaning a waiting.


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