‘Away’ with words
Here’s a formation that I wager is English-inspired in CW.
Monthly Archive: March, 2021
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1903: Nuučaan’uɬ sealers plan a party, until…
It’s not made clear whether any of the Chinuk Wawa words below were spoken on the scene…
sáʔ-formations in SW WA Salish…do they have something to do with Chinuk Wawa?
A root for ‘make’ that occurs mostly in compounds naturally makes me think of Chinuk Wawa’s mamuk- / munk- Causative prefix.
1888: A sermon by Myron Eells (Part 1)
There’s an entire genre of overlooked Chinuk Wawa texts in plain sight…
1867: A memaloose illahee is lost to racist arson
Victoria, middle of the frontier era: an apparently racist arson attack destroys a sacred cultural site on what’s now called Halkett Island.
Pre-1917: Ka-mi-akin, Last Hero of the Yakamas, part 2 of 2
Returning to A.J. Splawn’s excellent 1917 book now…
Some needed followup on ‘knock’
In my article “Hard hardwood, creolization, deviltree, and pissed-off voyageurs“, I realized (among other fun realizations; go read them) that ‘woodpecker’ in CW is really French-Canadian…
Lie-telling, Salish, and natural gender on the Lower Columbia
There’s a little more to know about Chinuk Wawa’s word for ‘a lie; tell a lie’.
El Comancho’s Washington, DC newspaper column on Chinook Jargon (6 of 6)
The “Boys and Girls Page” also has this puzzle that’s stumping me Today, a “Comancho Campfire Stories” installment that includes some possibly real Jargon —
“Sweet BetseyAnn Spikes” :) (part 6 of 7)
BetseyAnn Spikes (a dude) makes a penultimate appearance…