half-words

[Francisc Czobor]

Klahowya / LaXayEm,

Francisc weXt.
(Francisc again.)
I have noticed that in some sources, CW words that are normally
reduplicated appear not-reduplicated, or "halved".
So, in Winthrop's "A Partial Vocabulary of the Chinook Jargon" (1866), we
have:
Hool "mouse" (instead of hool-hool)
Kullu or kulla, kullie "bird" (instead of kala-kala)
Pusse "cat" (instead of puss-puss)
In G. Lang's Glossary of Wawa
(http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/~chinook/Innsbruck/glossary.htm) I've found:
cik "wagon" (instead of chik-chik / tsik-tsik)
Were such "halved" words circulating in some form of CW somewhere /
sometime? Or this simplification is just a fancy of some authors?
Anyway, it was a tendency of CW to "halve" some reduplicated Chinookan
words, for instance:
CW kaw "to bind" vs. LC kaw-kaw (Gibbs)
CW khEl "hard" vs. LC khul-khul (Gibbs)
CW kwan "glad" vs. LC kwan-kwan (Gibbs)
CW pil "red" vs. LC tlpelpel (Gibbs), hlpElpEl (Curtis*)
CW shEX "rattle" vs. LC shukhshukh (Gibbs)
CW uk beside ukuk "this, that", LC. okok (Gibbs)
CW whane "sea-gull" (Demers/Blanchet/St.Onge) vs. LC ie-kwEni-kwEni
(Curtis*)

*Note: Curtis = Edward S. Curtis' "The North American Indian", Vol. 8, p.
198 sq.

aLki weXt,
Francisc

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