<div>Re-reading Ross's "Chinook Vocabulary" I have foud the answer to a query of Henry Zenk in his messages of June 9 and 10: where got Gill the word eptlach (O.C., that is "Old Chinook") = "medicine"?</div> <div>Ross has Eptl-ach = Medicine (the last entry on page 327).</div> <div> </div> <div>Francisc<BR><BR><B><I>hzenk@PDX.EDU</I></B> wrote: </div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-pLEX is recorded in Wasco as 'medicine'. Jacobs also records Clackamas -blEX<BR>'medicine, poison'. The Demers dictionary has Chinuk Wawa optlaH (H for the<BR>"h" with its right leg lopped off) 'liniment' (the o- suggests that this is a<BR>feminine noun, while the Wasco and Clackamas citations all appear with the<BR>masculine prefix i-; this suggests that the stem could have had different<BR>meanings in Chinookan depending on its gender prefix). And finally, Dale<BR>Kinkade has Upper Chehalis plEX with the following
translation and note: <BR>"aphrodisiac, Spanish fly, love medicine, love charm; possibly a loan from<BR>Chinook, via Chinook Jargon eptlach." Dale got the latter ("eptlach") from S.<BR>V. Johnson I believe, who in turn got it from one of Gill's dictionaries. <BR>Where Gill pulled it out of I've never been able to trace: he labels the item<BR>"O.C" = Old Chinook, that is, not Chinook Jargon at all. Henry<BR><BR>Quoting David Robertson <DDR11@COLUMBIA.EDU>:<BR><BR>> Hi, could someone help me?<BR>><BR>> Apparently M. Dale Kinkade suggested that the Nxa'amxcin or Moses-Columbia<BR>> Salish word /pLEX/ 'Indian dope, love medicine' might have come from Chinuk<BR>> Wawa.<BR>><BR>> (L = slurpy l, E = schwa, X = back x.)<BR>><BR>> This is noted as a personal communication from Dale in Ewa Czaykowska-<BR>> Higgins and Marie Louise Willett's 1997 paper "Simple Syllables in<BR>> Nxa'amxcin", IJAL 63(3):385-411.<BR>><BR>> Do any of you recognize
this word?<BR>><BR>> --Dave R<BR>><BR>> To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to<BR>> the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!<BR>><BR>><BR><BR>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond privately to the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p>
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