Hela
hela
- (v.) to leap over something
- (n.) leaping
Takeaya ei i hela!
“I’m ready for leaping!”
Notes: HAPPY CATURDAY!!! 
This is what Keli looks like when she’s about to jump:
She makes a very particular noise when she’s preparing to jump, and then another noise accompanying her jump. She’s quite the noisy cat (the pictures don’t do this justice). One of these days, I plan to record and catalog her various noises. She must have over twenty (a decent lexicon for a cat).
The iku for hela is actually the iku for he turned 45° to the right. This was done because the two lines that form a right angle and the midline extending towards the upper left-hand corner of the cell, when turned, form something resembling la. I actually didn’t realize that that’s what I’d done when I started writing this post, but it most definitely is. Ha! How ’bout that…
June 3rd, 2011 at 5:34 pm)
if you just showed the picture, I wouldn’t have thought Keli was going to jump – she looks like she’s saying/thinking “you may pet me now.”
June 4th, 2011 at 1:58 pm)
Heh, heh… She’s a deceptive cat. But really, if you heard the noise accompanying the crouch, you’d know. I wonder if I can embed video here…