Etymologies or “Oops”: rounding up some consequences
If it turns out to be true (as I suggested the other day) that Chinuk Wawa nouns beginning with the sounds úp… preserve an old Chinookan-language prefix p- ‘Instrument; Tool’…
Daily Archive: November 18, 2018
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The “Columbian” line: the ultimate in SW Washington Chinuk Wawa
(Edited to place more emphasis on James G. Swan…) Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864), preceding almost all of the published Chinuk Wawa documentation you know of, made one hell of a long footnote in his… Continue reading