‘Quahogs’ a-popping?
Subtitled, nope, they just suck. Subtitled, even John Peabody Harrington wasn’t infallible.
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Resolved: single-word emotions are from Chinookan, multi-word from Salish
Here I’m supposing that Chinuk Wawa’s psychological-state (including emotion) lexemes typically derive from Lower Chinookan…
Do-ka-batl story, and more Lushootseed-tinged CW
A hat tip today to Jim Mattila, who has sent me some more historic articles that relate to Lushootseed speakers and Chinuk Wawa!
hílu-tə́mtəm from Lower Chinookan
Coyote’s turds are always insulting him…
A reason, maybe, for that spelling “Ts’inuk”
I think the alternate spelling of “Chinook” as < Ts’inuk > goes back to one or more very well-informed researchers of our region’s Indigenous languages.
Reinforcement of the Indigenous metaphor BIRD : FOOL?
Here’s quite an interesting parallel, I think.
McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 3 of 8)
It’s Part 3 of our mini-series exploring Chinuk Wawa’s impact on Oregon Geographic Names…
Is qʰə́nchix̣ ‘when’ from Chinookan ‘how much (time span)’ ?
When I look at questions about future ‘when’ (that is, ‘when will…?’) in Lower Chinookan, I wonder if I’m seeing useful clues…
Wík-QUESTIONWORD is a traditional Chinookan phrase, half-disguised
It’s true that I have touched on elements of this before, but today I think I can prove a strong Lower Chinookan pattern behind some common CW phrases…
1887: Willoughby on “Quinaielt” life
The first thing to say about C[harles L.] Willoughby’s [1832-1888] brief ethnography, “Indians of the Quinaielt Agency, Washington Territory” is…