McArthur’s “Oregon Geographic Names” (part 4 of 8)
Part 4 of our mini-series on McArthur’s classic reference work about “Oregon Geographic Names”…
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1847: Joel Palmer’s “Journal”
Joel Palmer (1810-1881) was one of the first to publish a mass-market book describing the Oregon Country…
“Sweet BetseyAnn Spikes” :) (part 7 of 7)
#7 is the last in our mini-series on this charming pseudonymous character.
1846: Frémont’s “Narrative” and implicit CW
Not all documents of Chinuk Wawa seem like documents of CW.
1888: A sermon by Myron Eells (part 3)
The third page (page 34) of this sermon, published in Horatio Hale’s “An International Idiom“.
‘Quahogs’ a-popping?
Subtitled, nope, they just suck. Subtitled, even John Peabody Harrington wasn’t infallible.
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.