What does ʻai mean in Hawaiian?
ʻAi is food and eating, and specifically vegetable food as against iʻa, which covers fish and anything eaten with it. The ʻai noa of 1819 — the free eating — ended the kapu system.
Say it EYE. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The ʻokina (ʻ) is a short catch in the voice, like the break in “uh-oh”. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site ʻai is part of 1 names: 0 begin with it, 1 end with it. Most are boy names, and all of them sit in the group of Hawaiian names meaning life.