1788: A scrap of Nootka Jargon?
This scrap of early information might help us figure out the etymology of Chinuk Wawa’s háyásh ‘big’.
This scrap of early information might help us figure out the etymology of Chinuk Wawa’s háyásh ‘big’.
Checking back through my previous articles here, it seems I haven’t yet mentioned this connection between Métis French and Chinook Jargon.
I’ve seen so many half-assed etymologies published for the English words that come from Pacific NW languages, I figure I’ll see if I can hold a candle(fish) to their absurdity.
Does this have a US Forest Service connection, maybe?
A separate discovery in Captain George “Vancouver’s Discovery of Puget Sound“, edited by Edmond S. Meany (Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1957)…
Because of their exposure to Indigenous peoples in Eastern Canada!
I was writing a post about Kamloops-area soldiers writing home in Jargon during World War 1, and George M. Cohan’s 1917 patriotic song “Over There” came into my mind…
Picking up partway through 1854 today…
Super briefly…
I’ve been telling folks that the way to say ‘about’ in CW is the adverbial qʰáta (literal meaning: ‘how; how it is’).