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RE: Help with a project

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Help with a project
• 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.


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Voragh
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