Hard hardwood, creolization, deviltree, and pissed-off voyageurs
Ah, some deviltree! Just in time for Halloweeeen! š qĢÉĢl-qĢÉl stiĢk:Ā Literally ‘hard-hard wood’. Finding this in C. Snow’s field notesĀ with theĀ meaning ‘oak’, I checked his sometimesĀ interesting CJ phonetics against theĀ Grand RondeĀ dictionary. Surprising… Continue reading