Swans in Hawaiian

[Mike Cleven]

At 11:08 AM 1/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Hawaiian loan words?
>
>Look at the Hawaiian and Chinook Jargon words for
>swan. Looks like a word got loaned from one to the other,
>but which way it went, I don't know.

Hmm.  I was under the impression that the Chinook Jargon word "kehloke" was
from the old Chinook language.  I guess the next question is - were there
swans in Hawaii?  Because there certainly were on the lower Columbia......