Nawanaka
nawanaka
- (n.) goldfish
Ka mama eine ie nawanaka.
“The woman hugged the goldfish.”
Notes: There’s my old friend “The woman hugged the goldfish”! It’s been awhile.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, modern day nawanaka used to be nakanawa in the early days of Kamakawi (talking about actual history, not conhistory). This was back when compounds were head-final, even though everything else in the language was head-initial. It required some fixing, and nakanawa was the very first thing to get fixed. The unintended result, though, is that nakanawa still pops right up to the front of my brain whenever I think of “goldfish”; nawanaka is still slow in coming.
In Kamakawi, a nawanaka is actually a type of nawakama. That’s not the way it is in the real world. But, hey, them’s the breaks.
Today I learned many things. One of those many things is that I’m terrible at predicting the NCAA Tournament. “But David!” you protest. “You’ve been predicting the NCAA Tournament for years! Shouldn’t you have figured out by now that you’re terrible at it?” Yes, I suppose I should have. However, I seem to forget that fact each and every year, and thus, whenever I sit down to mark up my bracket, I think, “I got this!” Even though I pay absolutely no attention to college basketball during the regular season.
Ah well. At least I don’t have money riding on it—and at least I’m doing better than Doug!