Kalakala suomi?

[Yakima Belle]

http://www.kalakala.org/history/timeline.html

Named "flying bird" according to this article.

--- Francisc Czobor <fericzobor at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> In fact, the Finnish word for "fish" is kala (a word
> having cognates in all the other Finno-Ugrian
> languages, for instance Estonian kala, Hungarian
> hal), thus Kalakala would be "fish-fish" (I don't
> know what should this mean in Finnish, because this
> language, as far as I know, doesn't use
> reduplication for plural formation or other
> functions).
>   Anyway, in Seattle is much more probable for
> "Kalakala" to be CJ rather than Finnish.
>    
>   Francisc
> 
> Ros’ Haruo <rosharuo at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>   I was sitting at the Seattle Esperanto Society
> booth at the Fremont Fair all weekend. Sunday
> morning, the next-door booth (an Albertson's
> sweepstakes designed to collect names for their
> junkmail lists) was manned by a woman ;-) who saw my
> "Kalakala" coffee cup and said "that's Finnish". I
> said, "No, it's Chinook Jargon, it's a local word
> from around here." She got quite excited and kept
> telling me that both the word "Kalakala" and the
> ferryboat were of Finnish origin. Apparently it's
> Finnish for "fish". Anybody know whether the boat is
> in fact named "Kalakala" in CJ or in Finnish, and
> whether it was built by Finns? We both agreed that,
> whatever the etymology, it's misaccented in English,
> should have initial accent in Finnish, and I think
> either initial or penultimate in the Wawa. 
> 
> lilEnd
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