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What’s in the name?
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Well, there are many. Their names are gold and nickel, silver and copper. These are the currencies by which we interact with the world and the people around us. Often they follow a winding path before being used to baptize a person for life.
If you come from a colonized environment, names become even more important. Diving into one’s roots and embracing the nicknames and labels created by ancestors who passionately resisted conquest is a revolutionary act in its own right.
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So what’s in the name? For all, especially colonized peoples. One such example is texans Kicker Kaimi Fairbairn uses some of the most beautiful and complex honorific language I’ve ever seen in sports.
Kaimi Fairbairn full name
Mr. Fairbairn’s full name is below.
john christian kaiminoeoroamekaikeokekumpa fairbairn
For those keeping track, that’s a total of 56 characters for all four parts of Fairbairn’s name. One of Fairbairn’s middle names, Ka’iminoeauloameka’ikeokekumupa’a, makes up the bulk of that total, featuring about 30 letters and four okina. Represented in print by an upside-down apostrophe, it indicates a glottal closure, or a clean break between vowels.
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If it seems difficult to spell, that’s because it is. It took Fairbairn quite a while to get the spelling right.
“I could always say that,” Fairbairn said. “The fun part is the spelling part. I don’t remember really learning how to spell until about seventh or eighth grade. There are 56 letters in total, so that’s a lot.”
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How to pronounce Ka’imi Fairbairn
If you want to say the short name for Fairbairn, do this:
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“Hey, Fairbairn.”
Make sure you say “Bairn” the same way you say “Bear” (with the n added at the end, of course).
If you want to pronounce Fairbairn’s full name in all its glory, here’s what you need to know.
I hope “John” and “Christian” are not too difficult to get started. However, it may be Kaimineauloameka’ikeokekumupa’a. It is pronounced like this:
“Ka-EE-mee-NOI-al-O-May-Ka-EE-Kay-O-Ka-KOOM-a-pa.”
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Take another look at the pronunciation of “Fairbairn” and find out how to end the Texans kicker’s name in style. \
Origin and meaning of the name Kaimi Fairbairn
Fairbairn’s name comes from his birthplace and ancestral homeland of Hawaii. In Hawaiian, an oral and written Polynesian language that existed among Native Hawaiians for centuries before contact with European settlers, Fairbairn’s preferred name means “seeker of wisdom.”
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“The meaning of your name is your life,” Fairbairn said. 2012. “Hawaiians have a long ancestry, and it means a lot to me to operate under the Hawaiian name.”
To that end, Fairbairn long ago decided to drop “John Christian” from his name. It wasn’t true to his roots as a Native Hawaiian.
“John Christian, I don’t really react to that,” Fairbairn said.