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<DIV>On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 Dave Robertson <TuktiWawa@NETSCAPE.NET>
writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>> Lisa, I haven't looked into the details, but I had the impression
<BR>> that Tukwila ([thEkhwIlE] with second-syllable stress in Northwest
<BR>> English, and something like [t'EkwEla] with first-syllable stress in
</DIV>
<DIV>> Chinook Jargon) was a K'alapuyan word. That is, it showed
up </DIV>
<DIV>> in a vocabulary of K'alapuya written by Sapir or somebody...but
is </DIV>
<DIV>> it a loan from CJ?<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Well, now . . . it could be. Could be it came to CJ via the
Duwamish.</DIV>
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<DIV>My opinion comes, in the beginning, from amateur nosing around in
the languages spoken in the mid-Puget Sound for purposes hopefully lending more
depth to a (sci-fic) fantasy novel I'm trying to find a publisher
for. That was when I discovered, in some forgotten (to me) book that
the town of Tukwila -- south of downtown Seattle and about 8 miles
south-by-southeast of where the Duwamish River oozes into Elliot Bay -- was from
a Duwamish word that meant "hazelnut" or just plain "nut". Everybody I
know who's been here for a few generations pronounces it with quick crisp T and
K, and a short quick quick U, with the stress on the second
syllable: tuk -- like Robin Hood's buddy the good Friar -- and WILA
-- like it should have a second L to be sure that I stays short and sweet.
There are, incidentally, a *bunch* of hazelnut trees growing wild in
Tukwila. </DIV>
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<DIV>Anyway. I mentioned this find to my father, and he gives me
this EVERYbody-knows-that kinda look and said, "You mean you didn't know
that?" and he then went on to explain which place names around the Sound
were from what language. I didn't really question his knowledge because
his grandfather -- born in British Columbia in 1855 -- moved to Seattle in
1896, via the San Juan Islands, but you can BET you biggest copper that I wish I
had taken notes. </DIV>
<DIV> <BR>> I want my musician friend to create another CJ pop song, to
be <BR>> called "It's Another Tukwila Sunrise." :-)<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Oozin'out slowly to Elliot Bay,</DIV>
<DIV>where mudsharks play . . . ?<BR></DIV>
<DIV>Lisa<BR>Edmonds, WA,
USA
ICQ #4894690<BR>Family Genealogy -- <A
href="http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/index.html">http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/index.html</A><BR>The
Children of Fort Langley -- <A
href="http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/FtLangleyChildren.html">http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/FtLangleyChildren.html</A><BR>The
Langley Story Illustrated -- <A
href="http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/langley.html">http://members.tripod.com/~LisaPeppan/langley.html</A><BR>.<BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>