‘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…
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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…
For my French-speaking readers
A very well-researched blog article on the history of Chinuk Wawa dictionaries:
Lapwen for ‘frying pan’ — Cree influence?
A tip of the siyápuł / chapeau / drying pan to Dale McCreery for putting this bug in my ear during the weekly Chinook Wawa online study session this Saturday. (Message me if you… Continue reading
Chinuk Wawa in a Stó:lō hymn book (Part 8: Psychedelia)
It’s been a bit since our last installment in this mini-series, and circumstances might have you wishing for more Chinook Jargon hymns to sing…