 A 1906 phrase book sometimes translates it to "English (language)".The 1865 "Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language," compiled by Lorrin Andrews, shows the pronunciation as ha-o-le.A popular belief is that the word is properly written and pronounced as "hāole", literally meaning "no breath," because foreigners did not know or use the "honi" ("hongi" in Māori), a Polynesian greeting by touching nose to nose and inhaling or essentially sharing each other's breaths, and so the foreigners were described as "breathless".