Source of tanlki "yesterday"

[Rein Stamm]

James,

I cannot answer your question directly but I can tell you this:
Something similar appears in "Chinook and Shorthand Rudiments, with which the 
Chinook Jargon and wawa shorthand......." [I'll spare you the rest]

It is "By the Editor of the "Kamloops Wawa"" and published in Kamloops, B.C., 
1898.

I have a photocopy, on page 8 "tanke-[illegible]" appears with the meaning as 
yesterday.  I cannot make out the 3 (?) blurred letters that follow. The 
shorthand symbol is also given.  The words listed are seperated into a French 
and English section "tanke-[illegible]" appears in what I presume to be 
the "Indian" section.

Regrds,
Rein         



Quoting James Crippen <jcrippen at GMAIL.COM>:

> Does anyone know the etymology of tanlki "yesterday"? I have it listed
> in Sam Johnson's 1978 dissertation on Chinook Jargon, but no info on
> the source language. It doesn't look like English or French.
> 
> Also is the first or last syllable stressed? I am curious because I am
> looking at a possible loan of this from CJ into Tlingit, but stress is
> probably the deciding factor.
> 
> Mási,
> James
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