Comment by fsckboy

> 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.