"Garth" is cousin to "yard", which is not at all surprising when you think about it.
It hit me after a bit: Hawaiian nicknames! :-D One meaning "child", the other short (relatively speaking) for "humuhumunukunukuapua'a". Does she know it's a fish?
No, I don't know Hawaiian, but I've been a word and language nut all my life, and made them my profession (as a linguist) as well. Ysabet can tell you I do this sort of thing all the time.
Respectfully submitted, Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody
humuhumunukunukuapua'a!
I like those views, cloudy though they be.
"Garth" is cousin to "yard", which is not at all surprising when you think about it.
It hit me after a bit: Hawaiian nicknames! :-D One meaning "child", the other short (relatively speaking) for "humuhumunukunukuapua'a". Does she know it's a fish?
No, I don't know Hawaiian, but I've been a word and language nut all my life, and made them my profession (as a linguist) as well. Ysabet can tell you I do this sort of thing all the time.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody