Swans in Hawaiian

[Nadja Adolf]

Don't know. But kehloe is apparently the Hawaiian word for swan.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Cleven [SMTP:ironmtn at bigfoot.com]
> Sent:	Friday, January 15, 1999 11:25 AM
> To:	Nadja Adolf; CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
> Subject:	Re: Swans in Hawaiian
>
> 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......
>