Two lonesome forms in Louis-Napoleon St Onge’s handwritten dictionary, which I found in an archive back East several years ago, suggest the interesting possibility of a uniquely Central Dialect feature.
In the 1893 book “La sténographie en France“, which is mostly in French shorthand, the inventor thereof, Émile Duployé, reports years of contact with Jean-Marie-Raphaël Le Jeune, who is famous to us as… Continue reading
Does mokison nos mean “jib boom” in Chinuk Wawa?
Folks have recommended Waxqwidi William Wasden to me for years; here’s a sample of why.
I’ve been pondering the well-known word Multnomah, as in the Multnomah Chinookan people, Multnomah Falls, and Multnomah County, Oregon.
Time to update a post I wrote years ago, adding an insightful wrinkle.
Let’s see how briefly I can state this revamp of my research findings:
Something made me launch this laptop-internal search utility that I use, to look for siks.
I venture to claim that limulo ‘wild’ in Chinuk Wawa is just another horse word.
Naika wawa masi kopa Tiyaha (I say thanks to T.) for pointing this recently published book out to me1
