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Where does “vakalele” come from?

vakalele (Tuvaluan) comes from Tuvaluan vaka — canoe.

vakalele (Tuvaluan): airplane

Definitions

  1. airplane

Ancestry of “vakalele”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Tuvaluanvakacanoe
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