Lempfrit’s legendary, long-lost linguistic legacy (Part 8)

The 8th pair of page images from this overlooked document of Fort Vancouver-era Chinuk Wawa is quite a discovery… — it’s a couple of pages that are apparently missing from the later (Alphonse Pinart/Anonymous 1849) copy of this document. (I’ve consulted both the unpublished and published versions thereof.)

So we have here quite a number of additional words from the presumed original Modeste Demers manuscript!

If I followed my habit of underlining all the material that’s different from that copy, I’d have to do that to this entire article. I’ll skip it.

Today I’ll point out a number of nice bits of Métis French influence…

• Lolo – charge (‘(a) load’)
  I don’t seem to find this noun sense of the word in Demers, Blanchet, & St. Onge 1871; this word is a verb in all Jargon dictionaries, meaning ‘carry, bring’. 
• Latokan [sic] stik (literally ‘oak tree’) ⌉ chêne (‘oak’)
  Kanawè* stik (literally ‘acorn tree’)    ⌋
  Properly latsikan-stik.
• Lésac – Sac (‘bag’)
  The “é” implies the known Métis French pronunciation of “le sac” as [lisak].
• Kot – habit(,) manteau(,) robe (‘suit, coat, dress’)
• Lek – lac(,) étang (‘lake, pond’)
• La montagne – montagne (‘mountain’)
• Lōp – corde(,) cable(,) ret* (‘rope, cable, net’)
• Thi – thé (‘tea’)
  The vowel “i” may just reflect the English word, but it can also be evidence of the identical Métis French pronunciation.
• Shouka – sucre (‘sugar’)
• Laselle – selle (‘saddle’)
• Lémoulin – moulin (‘mill’ for grinding grain)
  See my remark above, at ‘bag’.
• Stoshin – esturgeon (‘sturgeon’)
• Paya éléé (literally ‘fire/burnt dirt’) – cendre (‘ash’)
• andialh – guepe (‘wasp’)
• Kwalas pouspous (literally ‘raccoon cat’) (-) chat sauvage (‘wild cat’)
  The word for ‘raccoon’ is just kwalas ‘wild cat’ in Demers, Blanchet, & St. Onge 1871. This seeming compound word is new to us. But, there’s some chance it was intended as “kwalas, pouspous”, i.e. 2 synonyms.
• Lémain – branche d’arbre, noeud (‘tree branch, knot’ (presumably of tree))
  See my remark above, at ‘bag’ and ‘mill’.
• Smōk – fumée (‘smoke’)
• Lametsine – médecine (‘medicine’)

• Kělǎlě – médecine sauvage (‘Native medicine’)
• pelpel – sang (‘blood’)
• olélé – graine(,) petit fruit en général (‘seed, small fruit in general’)
• Lakōm – gomme(,) résine (‘gum, resin’)
• Solt – Sel (‘salt’)
• Solt-tsok (literally ‘salt-water’) – mer(,) eau salée (‘sea, saltwater’)
• Tamolitch, sceau [sic], baril, tonne[au] (‘pail, barrel, cask’)
• Kōchōn – cochon (‘pig’)
• Tochon – torchon (‘cloth/rag’)
• Lépot – pot, tasse (‘jar, cup’)
  See my remark above, at ‘bag’, ‘mill’, and ‘tree branch’. 
• La lime-tépesso (literally ‘file-plant’) – prèle (‘horsetail’ plant)
  Defined as ‘bottom grass’ in the published Demers, Blanchet, and St. Onge 1871 version of the Demers vocabulary.
• Mous-mous haus (literally ‘cow building’) – étable (‘stable’)
• Totoush haus (literally ‘milk building’) – laiterie (‘dairy’ building)
• Paya-la metsine, (literally ‘burning medicine’) mouches cantharid[es] (‘Spanish fly’)
• ōptlah̃ – onguent (‘ointment’)
• 
  Shit la metsine, (literally ‘poop medicine’) – purgation (remède* (‘purge’ (laxative), ‘remedy’)
  Do any of my readers have an idea what that last word is? — UPDATE: Dr. Peter Bakker pointed out that it must be “remède”.
• Shit haus (literally ‘poop building’) – Latrines (‘latrines’)
• Bed – pit [i.e. 2 different pronunciations of the word] – Lit (‘bed’)
• Sīzo – Ciseaux (‘scissors’)

qʰata mayka təmtəm?
What do you think?