“la-let” = milk?
A Métis girl who was there tells us a new word…
Monthly Archive: November, 2017
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“Unreliable interpreters” and minimizing Chinuk Wawa
Sometimes your time gets eaten up with correcting unreliable OCR…sometimes with correcting an unreliable senior scholar.
Dead meat!
Short Saturday post.
Measuring cups
(File under cultural contact.) The conventionalized Salish measurements tended to be for two dimensions. Here’s a hint of 3-D.
Native metaphor: FAST ~ ABILITY
qʰáta máyka tə́mtəm? Observe…
kwalta ‘snare, trap’
While working on Father St Onge’s old dictionary manuscript, a word for ‘snare’ brought me up short.
Similkameen, 1860 – – Indians don’t know Jargon
How far had Chinuk Wawa spread, two years after the gold rushes brought it to southern interior BC?
“By Track and Trail”
If you love some “Cannucks” and some Chinook, I have the late-frontier travelogue for you.
nawítka & drét
nawítka: I have a more detailed etymology, and a newly discovered Native metaphor, to propose for an extremely well-known word of Chinuk Wawa.
Crowdsourcing challenge, continued: Swinomish letter in Chinuk Wawa
Three weeks ago, my readers helped find a pair of 1920’s letters in Chinuk Wawa; today I’m presenting the first to you. It’s very rich, fluent, heartfelt material.