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Supper Mario Broth @Mario BrothBlog To this day, any meaning or etymology of the name "Lakitu" is completely unknown. It seems to have been made up without explanation for the US manual for Super Mario Bros. Below is a chart of the history of Lakitu's name across different languages. Transliteration Chinese 朱盖木 or 球蓋姆 Zhūgàimù or Qiúgàimu Transliteration of the Japanese name ource:marioviki.com/lakitu Japanese ジュゲム Jugemu From a Japanese folk tale about a boy with an extremely long name that starts with "Jugemu" Side note many unique Lakitus (eg Lakilester) and Lakitu-adjacent entities (eg Spiny Logs) have names that reference that boy's extremely long name in Japanese Folklore analog Korean 김수한무 Kimsuhanmu Analogous to the Japanese name, now from a Korean tale about a boy with an extremely long name Direct adaptation without explanation ? English Lakitu Presented in the North American NES manual for Super Mario Bros. in 1985 without explanation; etymology unknown Every other language (Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish) Lakitu or a transliteration of "Lakitu" into that language Taken verbatim from English, etymology unknown

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