More early Chinuk Wawa grammaticalization: mank- ‘Comparative’
mank-: This typical lower Columbia River way of forming the Comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs goes very far back…
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Chinuk Wawa tree names in -stik (a Salish idea) … & a new etymology for ‘100’ (a Chinookan idea)
All of this forms a theme, keep reading. Let’s start out by thinking of Chinuk Wawa compound tree names ending in -stik, which go about as far back in time as we have documents… Continue reading
sun smoke boat
Commercial Chinuk Wawa, early post-frontier.
Fearing Death Soon, Red Defies Ostracism
Another case of the actual Chinuk Wawa words telling a different story from what the Whites claimed they meant!
Walkie-talkie, or, more new Lower Chinookan etymologies
Walkie-talkie! I like how that works. Let’s talk about < waki >.
Definite article was also early in Chinuk Wawa…from Salish
Yet another grammatical operator that crystallized early in Chinuk Wawa: the definite article.
Reduplication also grammaticalized early in Chinuk Wawa — from Salish
It’s often been remarked that Chinook Jargon has lots of repetition, which has seemed strange to English- and French-speakers.
An embarrassing question to crowdsource!
File this one under “I dreamed it, but it didn’t come true” 🙂
Big, tall, Salish?
Short and sweet 🙂
A suffix -təmtəm?
I’ve pointed out various words of Chinuk Wawa that mutated away from their original, literal, meanings towards having abstract or even grammatical functions. Let’s take on a related puzzle.