Swans in Hawaiian

[Jim Holton]

The Hawaiian word for swan is "nokekula" (no-ke-ku-la) while the Chinook
Jargon word is "kehloke", "keluk" (ke-lok).  They don't seem even
close.  For those interested, Emanuel Drechsel and Haunani Makuakane
wrote an article on Hawaiian loan words in Chinook Jargon.  It's called
"Hawaiian Loan Words in Two Native American Pidgins" and is in the
_International Journal of AMerican Linguistics_, Vol 48, 1982. Quick
summary: Basically there is only two sure loan words. They are "kanaka"
and "owayhee, oihe."  Not very surprising!  The article looks at a
couple of other "possibilities" but not very convincingly.




Nadja Adolf wrote:
>
> 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......
> >