The grammar of sickness
Stay well! From a dictionary of Kamloops Chinuk Wawa that I’ve finished but haven’t yet published, here’s a very topical entry.
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Piu-piu ‘skunk’ from Canadian French? or Indigenous languages? or English?
Among the varied Chinuk Wawa expressions for a ‘skunk’,* George Gibbs 1863:39 informs us of < piu-piu >.
A Chinook Jargon adverb-class marker?
Here’s a little sketch of an idea about Chinuk Wawa:
Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 7)
I do believe they got some of their Chinook to rhyme!
Songs of LBDB (Part 4: The Last Rose of Summer)
I’m reminding you, I try to give a charitable interpretation to people’s written Chinuk Wawa…
Deeper into the linguistic archaeology of ánqati ‘PAST’
Here’s one of those Jargon words that we definitely know the source of…so why am I writing about it today?
Antedating reduplicated x̣ə́ləl-x̣ələl?
In Laura Belle Downey-Bartlett’s translation of the American pop song “My Old Kentucky Home”, she uses a word that I take as being x̣ə́ləl-x̣ələl ‘to shake, tremble’.
sup-uk from Salish & Chinookan, but really Salish
A rare synonym for skúkum ‘strong’ in one old Chinuk Wawa dictionary is JK Gill’s 1909 < su-pukʹ > ‘strong; powerful’.
Adding to the Chinookan etymology of p’ə́q
In these pages, previously…
Songs of LBDB (Part 3: “My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night”)
In my own defense, I’m not TRYING to provide you guys with a new drinking game…*