What does iwi mean in Hawaiian?
Iwi is bone, and because bones carry the mana of a person after death they carry lineage too. The care taken with burial, and the seriousness of disturbing a burial site, follow from that. Iwi kupuna are ancestral remains.
Say it EE-vee. Every vowel is pronounced, and the capitalized syllable takes the stress. The pronunciation guide covers the rules.
On this site iwi 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 earth.