Meacham's CJ in Oregon 1870 (please read)

[Alan H. Hartley]

Dave,

Thanks for the Meacham analysis. Following is a TENINO etymology just
(with orthog. adjustments) as I submitted it to Oxford, with thanks to
Haruo Aoki.

> > p. 151 The Tenino band were in possession of, and had made improvements
> > of value near, "The Dalles".
>
> /tinaynu/?

TENINO					NEWS drafting, etym.

< Sahaptin tináynu 'Tenino' < tin- 'sun' + -ayn 'into' + -(n)u 'tribe,
band', i.e., perhaps, 'people of the sunset', the Tenino being a western
band of the Sahaptin; cf. Nez Perce tineyné:kt 'sunset'.

based on Haruo Aoki, pers. commun.; H. AOKI Nez Perce Dict. (1994) 84,
352, 355; Hdbk. N. Amer. Indians XII. (1998) 392

ahh 01/99

Alan