What do you make this mean?
From the 1902 “Chinook Book of Devotions throughout the Year“, page 74:
Drit nsaika sik pi kikuli tomtom
What do you make this mean?
I’m curious for a reason.
Leave a comment with your response!
From the 1902 “Chinook Book of Devotions throughout the Year“, page 74:
Drit nsaika sik pi kikuli tomtom
What do you make this mean?
I’m curious for a reason.
Leave a comment with your response!

That’s really interesting. If I was to take it literally word by word (which, as I now know is not the way to do this), I’d say “we are really sick and downhearted.” But I feel like it should be more like “we are really sad and downhearted,” as if it is both sik tumtum and kikooli tumtum (or, in contemporary idiom, “we’re really bummed”)
We are really sick and demoralized. Sam
“Cor contritum et humiliatum”, from the Lenten chant: Attende, Domine. Le Jeune’s source: https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.48268/117