Not only that, but the idea that 'tutu' is the word for grandmother is as big a lie as everything else about this pathological fraud Obama:
According to my Hawaiian dictionary, the word for grandparent is "kupuna" or "kuku." To distinguish grandmother, you would add the word for woman, "wahine" to the end of either one of these. To distinguish grandfather, you would add the word for man, "kanaka" or "kane."
In Hawaiian, you cannot have the letter "t" at all. That sound is found in Tahitian, a closely related language, but not in true Hawaiian.
Source(s):
"Introduction to the Hawaiian Language and English-Hawaiian Vocabulary" by Henry P. Judd, Mary Kawena Pukui, and John F.G. Stokes, 1945, Tongg Publishing, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Hhhmm... Been away from home for quite sometime, so I can't remember most of the Hawaiian dialects now. One thing that I cannot forget is the foods and all the good times (the spirit of aloha and the beauty of the island). Something that is missing here in upstate N.Y. Maybe I will go back there someday when I'm retired, or when I reach that point to become a grandfather,ha ha ha...
Edit: Kupuna, spells as kopona, but spell it as a hard "o", so you don't pronounce it as a "u". Wahine also spells different. The "i" sounds like a hard "e", example is the word "it", so most "i" in Hawaiian word, are not the same as "i" as in English pronounciation. Another example is the right pronounciation of Hawaii is Hawa"ee", hard "e" of course...
So Kupuna kane (grand father) and Kupuna wahine (grand mother) are the right words to use. I hope I didn't lost you...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081021153505AAglWyf
Far from it, you have been MOST helpful, thanks.