People helping people: “Indians fishing, Sand Island, Chinook. J. F. Ford photo” (image credit: Oregon History Project) Great discussions with people of at a wide range of skills, who all like helping each… Continue reading
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.
