Further Lushootseed-Chinuk Wawa
A really interesting phrase pops up in a fictionalized Puget Sound-area hunting story that I found:
The BBC links the origin of the popular Sasquatch legend with Sts’ailes First Nation sasq’ets slollicum customs, like this 1938 ceremony (image credit: BBC)
Delate silalicum illahee, defined as ‘the true land of ghosts’.
— from “Adventures with Cougars” (“written for American Field”) in the Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer of June 15, 1884, page 3, columns 3 & 4
This word “silalicum” is clearly Dxʷləšucid a.k.a. Lushootseed Salish s-ƛ̓álqəb ‘monster; anything you are afraid of’, per the Bates, Hess, and Hilbert 1994 dictionary.
Compare, a bit to the northward, Stó:lō Salish “slollicum“. Some have said “Bigfoot”/”Sasquatch” is one of the slollicum.
Anyway — this comes from a story told as if it’s fiction, so I can’t make a huge deal out of it on its own merits.
But this phrase fits into a recognizable pattern I’ve pointed out a number of times, wherein Chinuk Wawa of the Seattle area included a good number of Lushootseed words.
