Swans in Hawaiian (fwd)

[David Lewis]

>Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:50:08 -1000
>From: Mid Pacific Maritime Institute <midpac at sprynet.com>
>Subject: Re: Swans in Hawaiian (fwd)
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>Aloha,
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>Pukui and Elbert Dictionary offers but one word for swan ---  Nokekula.
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>At 10:35 AM 1/15/1999 -1000, you wrote:
>>Here is a debate going on on the Chinook Jargon listserve. Does anyone
>>know the Hawaiian words for swan, or related words to the CJ word listed
>>below.
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>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:24:59 -0800
>>From: Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM>
>>To: CHINOOK at LINGUIST.LDC.UPENN.EDU
>>Subject: Re: Swans in Hawaiian
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>>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.
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>>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......
>>
>>
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