So many Métis words in interior PNW languages (part 5: Saulteau First Nation/Plains Cree)
It should be no surprise that a Plains Cree dialect would carry marks of Métis culture.
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The Klamath language preserves Métis influence
Certain words are extremely important in M.A.R. Barker’s 1963 Klamath Dictionary.
AF Chamberlain 1891 “Words of Algonkian Origin” — really Métis — in CW
dret hayuuu masi kʰapa shawash-iliʔi man ya kəmtəks hayu qʰata uk anqati shawash tilixam, Dr David G Lewis PhD (many many thanks to a Grand Ronde person who knows a lot about old-time… Continue reading
Cree influence on Chinuk Wawa?
A smart & interesting question was asked the other day by Luke Etxeberria in the “Chinook Jargon” group on Facebook.
On the source of tutúsh, or, help, I don’t understand Cree grammar!
Tutúsh ‘to nurse/suck; breast(s)/nipple; milk’ in Chinook Jargon is broadly acknowledged to trace back to an Algonquian source, back East.
New discovery: ‘horn spoon’ in Salish < Jargon < French < Indian
Father Louis-Napoléon St. Onge’s big 1892 manuscript dictionary of Chinuk Wawa from the lower Columbia River region has a word that has nagged at my brain for a long time…
Measuring cups
(File under cultural contact.) The conventionalized Salish measurements tended to be for two dimensions. Here’s a hint of 3-D.