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Why is it okay Chinuk Wawa when you say hayas(h)-ánqati ‘very long ago’…
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Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 9: “Tell It to Jesus”)
The second of three fragmentary translations, choruses only.
French Creek, Snohomish County, WA
Another of our sporadic crowd-sourcing challenges…
‘Evil’ & ‘pretty’?
Here I want to expand on a really great remark made by the crew of the 2012 Grand Ronde dictionary of Chinuk Wawa…
łxwáp ‘hole’ is only partly explained by Chinookan
Once again a Chinuk Wawa word has pretty much equally good claims to Chinookan and Salish parentage…
Gill’s earliest Lord’s Prayer (1884)
Among the very earliest occurrences of the Chinuk Wawa Lord’s Prayer in print is this from an 1884 Oregon newspaper.
‘Eyes’ are related to ‘mirror’
A discovery, I propose:
Like likes: 2 grammaticalizations from the same word
Today I’m sketching the start of an idea to be fleshed out further…
Confirmation of lisítaluy ‘squash’ from Canadian French
Previously in this space…
A Chinookan etymology for ‘mirror’
A super-charming Clackamas Upper Chinookan recollection tells of the people using the first frying pans they were given as mirrors…