Turnips, potatoes

[David Gene Lewis]

Klahowya Tillacums and Bostons,
I always thought an Indian Potato was Camass in the Willamette Valley
context. Although, for further north this might mean another
tubor/root vegetable. How far north does Camass grow? Are there other
members of the Lily family that are dug for food by Natives? I have
also heard Wapato referred to in this way.
David

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> r.clark at auckland.ac.nz wrote [and Dave R. forwards it]:
>
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> Kuipers' Salish Etymological Dictionary has PS *s-qawc "(Indian)
potato",
> quite widely attested in the family, and notes similar looking words
> (qa:wac) in Quileute and Nootka. Is there one particular species we
should
> understand by "Indian potato"?
>
> Ross Clark
>
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David Lewis
University of Oregon
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde

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