Turnips, potatoes

[Bernard Schulmann]

The St'at'imcemts (Lillooet) word for potato is petaok (accent over the a)

and a turnip is tanaps (accent over the first a and the s is pronounced
as an sh sound)

Bernard

David Robertson wrote:

>Yo!  (Kwak'wala greeting, not youth slang)
>
>>>From HF Nater's truly excellent 'Stem List of the Bella Coola Language:'
>
>
>Turnips:
>7yanahu 'turnips' (Heiltsuk y'a`na`hu'; Kitimat y'a'naho // Haida
>y'a'a'naahuu, 7innu'u')
>
>***Are these all from Chinook Jargon?
>
>
>Potatoes:
>kwusi 'potatoes'  (Heiltsuk gwu`si' // Tsimshian sgusiit // Haida
>sgu'u'si'i't, sGa'wsiit // cf. Squamish sqawc // Nootkan qa:wac)
>
>***Is the old story true, that the forms in the northern languages come
>from English 'good seed'?  And aren't the southern (Sq, No) forms
>separate, native (at least in Salish) terms?
>
>
>Now that I'm getting the opportunity to work on Kwak'wala a little, I'm
>grateful for Nater's listing so many similarities of form among Salish,
>Wakashan, and other languages.  This little book is a gem.
>
>--Dave R.
>
>
>

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