Fwd: Kokanee (from R. Clark)

[Mike Cleven]

Dave Robertson wrote:
> Subject:    kokanee
>   Date:    Tue, 18 Jun 2002 17:03:39 +1200
>   From:    "Ross Clark (FOA DALSL)" <r.clark at auckland.ac.nz>
>   To:    "'David D. Robertson'" <ddr11 at columbia.edu>
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> Dave: I posted this yesterday and got two replies immediately. One said
> "your post has been submitted...etc" and the other said "unable to send,
> mailbox full". It doesn't seem to have appeared, so I'm re-sending it.
> Ross
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> A Concise Dictionary of Canadianisms (Avis et al. 1973) gives "Interior
> Salish kikinee" for the etymology. The form "kokanee" is attested from 1937.
> "Kickininee" is given as an alternative form -- "also spelled kickaninny" --
> and their IPA transcription further confirms your suspicion as to the
> pronunciation. The only early citation for this is dated 1875(1953), from
> Okanagan Hist.Soc.Rep.17, presumably somebody's publication of an old letter
> or journal, in which the actual spelling is "kik-e-ninnies"!

It would help if the CDC said _which_ Interior Salish language; for the
Kootenays the possibilities could be Okanagan, Shuswap, or Sinixt;
things about BC are always vague to editors and publishers on the other
side of the mountains.  I just looked in "British Columbia Place Names"
by G.P.V. and Helen B. Akrigg (UBC Press, 1997, 3rd Ed.) and it says, in
reference to Kokanee Creek near Nelson, that it's an Okanagan word; then
it x-refs to Kickininee Park (!) north of Penticton where the original
Okanagan  is given as kekeni, where there's a comma-kind-of-thingy over
the 'n' and an accent-grave over the i.


--
Mike Cleven
http://www.cayoosh.net (Bridge River Lillooet history)
http://www.hiyu.net (Chinook Jargon phrasebook/history)