<div>Klahowya, Elizabeth</div> <div> </div> <div>In fact, according to all the dictionaries and vocabularies, "kalakala" means "bird" in general, but, according to Shaw (The Chinook Jargon and how to use it, Rainier Printing Co., Seattle, 1909, <SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><EM>http://chinookjargon.home.att.net/shaw.htm</EM></SPAN>), it means also "fowl, insect, wing". Hale (1890) gives as translation "bird, fowl".</div> <div>It has many alternative spellings in different sources, for instance: kallakala, kullukula, kullakala, kullakulla, culacula, kalahkalah, kilakila, kulakula, etc. etc.<BR>According to Gibbs, Shaw and Hale, the etymology is "Chinook kalakala" (that means the word comes from Proper Chinook). I have read somewhere that in Chinook it is originally an onomatopoea, imitating the fluttering of
bird's wings.</div> <div> </div> <div>Francisc<BR><BR><B><I>"E. Murphy" <mary.murphy90@VERIZON.NET></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Does "kalakala" mean any specific type of bird? Is it always a flying bird?<BR><BR>-Elizabeth<BR><BR>----- Original Message ----- <BR>From: "Yakima Belle" <YAKIMABELLE@YAHOO.COM><BR>To: <CHINOOK@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG><BR>Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2006 2:28 PM<BR>Subject: Re: Kalakala suomi?<BR><BR><BR>> http://www.kalakala.org/history/timeline.html<BR>><BR>> Named "flying bird" according to this article.<BR>><BR>> --- Francisc Czobor <FERICZOBOR@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR>><BR>>> In fact, the Finnish word for "fish" is kala (a word<BR>>> having cognates in all the other Finno-Ugrian<BR>>> languages, for instance Estonian kala, Hungarian<BR>>> hal), thus Kalakala would be "fish-fish" (I don't<BR>>>
know what should this mean in Finnish, because this<BR>>> language, as far as I know, doesn't use<BR>>> reduplication for plural formation or other<BR>>> functions).<BR>>> Anyway, in Seattle is much more probable for<BR>>> "Kalakala" to be CJ rather than Finnish.<BR>>><BR>>> Francisc<BR>>><BR>>> Ros' Haruo <ROSHARUO@GMAIL.COM>wrote:<BR>>> I was sitting at the Seattle Esperanto Society<BR>>> booth at the Fremont Fair all weekend. Sunday<BR>>> morning, the next-door booth (an Albertson's<BR>>> sweepstakes designed to collect names for their<BR>>> junkmail lists) was manned by a woman ;-) who saw my<BR>>> "Kalakala" coffee cup and said "that's Finnish". I<BR>>> said, "No, it's Chinook Jargon, it's a local word<BR>>> from around here." She got quite excited and kept<BR>>> telling me that both the word "Kalakala" and the<BR>>> ferryboat were of Finnish origin.
Apparently it's<BR>>> Finnish for "fish". Anybody know whether the boat is<BR>>> in fact named "Kalakala" in CJ or in Finnish, and<BR>>> whether it was built by Finns? We both agreed that,<BR>>> whatever the etymology, it's misaccented in English,<BR>>> should have initial accent in Finnish, and I think<BR>>> either initial or penultimate in the Wawa.<BR>>><BR>>> lilEnd<BR>>> To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'.<BR>>> To respond privately to the sender of a message,<BR>>> click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!<BR>>><BR>>><BR>>> ---------------------------------<BR>>> Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small<BR>>> Business.<BR>>><BR>>> To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'.<BR>>> To respond privately to the sender of a message,<BR>>> click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!<BR>><BR>><BR>> Gun control is to criminology as Lysenkoism is to
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