Whence the CJ word for 'grizzly bear'?

[Alan H. Hartley]

Dave Robertson 1 Nov.:

> Looking at Melville Jacobs' Kalapuya texts today I see that that language
> had a root /Sayum/ (where S can be either /s/ or /sh/), "grizzly bear",
> apparently.  This is on page 21, story number 7.
>
> But in I believe Boas' Chinook texts, and if not there, in Sapir's
> Kathlamet Chinook texts, we find a root /Sayim/ for the same thing!

cf. Nez Perce hiyú:m 'bear, especially grizzly bear' (Aoki _Dict._ 172)

Alan