[85053] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Help with a project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Sep 11 12:48:38 2008
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:44:28 -0500
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jatlh Voragh:
> I'm told that a ukulele is named for the flea-like jumping movement of the
> player's fingers. The Hawaiian word for flea is *'uku lele* "jumping bug"
> -- which is the origin of the pun: {Sup} "jump" (v.) + {ghew} "bug" (n.)
naHQun:
>> From "Hawaiian Dictionary" Puki & Elbert 1986:
>> 'uku.lele. n. Ukulele. /Lit.,/ leaping flea, probably from the Hawaiian-
>> nickname of Edward Purvis, who was small and quick and popularized the
>> instrument brought to Hawai'i by the Portuguese in 1879.
qatlho'. loQ pIm De'lIj 'ach QaptaH Okrand qID.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
