2016: Fiola, Dakelh, Métis/Canadian French
I have the feeling this will be an ongoing series of corrections…
I have the feeling this will be an ongoing series of corrections…
The book is “The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia (formerly New Caledonia) [1660 to 1880]” by A[drien] G[abriel] Morice (London, UK: John Lane, 1909).
If we can take this at face value, the large role of Chinook Writing in this part of Indigenous people’s religious practices is news to me.
I think here we learn something about the origin of the still-common phrase, “shortchanging” someone!
Dutilly, Arthème. 1944. An inexhaustible source of linguistic knowledge. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 87(5):403-406. (Papers on Archaeology, Ecology, Ethnology, History, Paleontology, Physics, and Physiology (May 5, 1944)).
Of course Northern-Dialect Chinook Jargon’s fol-dawn is from English ‘fall down’, but…
I just want to comment on a single Dakelh (Carrier) word in a single article by a friend of mine:
Solidly within the frontier period, after Oregon became a state, we find this neat quotation of a Northwest Oregon Native man’s Chinuk Wawa.
Definitely one for our Chinuk Wawa-related humor file…and it contains a word discovery!
This very early (by Pacific Northwest standards) tragic love poem may have been the one that originally started the answer poems that we’ve already looked at.