Category Archive: Chinook Jargon

“A Legacy from Sam Morris”

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About 3 years ago I introduced you to a Chinook Jargon song recorded in 1911 by Nez Perce tribal members.

Expanding our minds about “snas” (‘rain’)!

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Thanks to a conversation the other day with Doctors Henry Kammler and ƛukša Adam Werle, we have this thought.

How is “moodih” a Chinook Jargon loan into Tl’azt’en-ne Bughuni?

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I’m very curious: how is moodih a Chinook Jargon loan into Dakelh?

I think músmus and tutúsh both came from Plains Cree/Ojibwe

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On the topic of stuff I’ve thought for many years but evidently haven’t said in so many words here:

Did k’áynuɬ reference ‘getting high’ in K’alapuyan?

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I credit CWDP (2012:121).

BC: “Tyhee Conomody, Atkiso, and Kwikwetlem First Nation” (land disputes in Chinook, etc)

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In British Columbia History magazine 52:2 (Summer 2019), pages 26-31, we get some insight into the role of Chinook Jargon in the early frontier era of BC.

Clackamas ‘(railroad) train’ is no co-inky-dink!

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“Calque” is the word to know… In “Clackamas Chinook Texts”, page 562, wátuɬ čúkčan (‘fire wagon’) is the Clackamas-language term for a ‘railroad train’. Image credit: Progressive Rail This is clearly borrowed from Chinuk Wawa’s páya-t’síkt’sik!… Continue reading →

‘Gun dirt’: A partly Nootka Jargon etymology for púlali?

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How about this new idea about a real old Chinuk Wawa word?

What do other people call you behind your back? Exonyms in Chinuk Wawa

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Lately I’ve been doing a good deal of research deep into the Chinookan languages, but it’s leading me right back out to the names of foreign tribes!

Hold on tight! Here’s an earlier Lower Chinookan etymology for t’úʔan

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ɬúsh-nánich (tloosh-nanich)!