> Hono - [炎] means flame in Japanese oh, cool! that must mean, because of all those volcanos, that Honolulu means... > From Hawaiian Honolulu, from hono (“bay

> Hono - [炎] means flame in Japanese oh, cool! that must mean, because of all those volcanos, that Honolulu means... > From Hawaiian Honolulu, from hono (“bay, harbor”), cognate with Maori whanga, + lulu (“shelter”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian duŋduŋ (“sheltered”).* ok, nope. "fire shelter" would have been pretty cool tho.