<div>I have read recently (World Lexicon of Grammaticalization, by B. Heine & T. Kuteva, Cambridge University Press, 2002, page 118) that in "Grand Ronde Chinook Jargon" _sim_ (with an acute accent over i, probably indicating length) means "to swim".</div> <div>My question is: where comes this "sim" from?</div> <div> </div> <div>Is it from English "swim" ? (The word "swim" appears in Kamloops CJ, in Jacob's CJ texts told by Thomas Paul and in J.B. Good's dictionary of 1880, all these reflecting the CJ of British Columbia)</div> <div> </div> <div>Or maybe GRCJ "sim" is a contraction of the CJ word sichEm (sitshum, shetshom, shetsum, shetsham, etc.) "to swim" which, according to Gibbs, comes from Chehalis?</div> <div> </div> <div>Or, the third possibility, "sim" is a combination/compromise of both "swim" and "sichEm"?</div> <div> </div> <div>Hayu masi pus k'ilapay wawa.</div> <div>Francisc</div><p>
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