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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>o tlaas ! (hey all!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The only name I am familiar with is Bakooba which
is could be a jargonization of Vancouver.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Like Biktoli for Victoria, and sii'
a<U>tl</U> for Seattle.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Though sii' a<U>tl</U> may be an original
Native word---I heard in a Chinook song at Neah Bay.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><U>tl</U>oo<U>sh</U> nani<U>ch</U> na
siks</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Scott/ooshtaqi</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "David Robertson" <</FONT><A
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:58
AM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: OT: name of Vancouver
BC</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>> Off topic a little, but maybe interesting:<BR>> <BR>> Ts'amas
/ Ts'amis / Ts'am'as<BR>> <BR>> is the name of Vancouver, BC in languages
of at least 3 unrelated families:<BR>> <BR>> Wakashan, Salish and
Tsimshian.<BR>> <BR>> A Kwak'wala speaker has told me it means "pointing
place", referring to the <BR>> spires of all the churches in a city.
She has it as the name of Victoria, <BR>> BC as well as of Vancouver.<BR>>
<BR>> I wonder how this name got shared so widely? Victoria is older, and for
a <BR>> while was more important than Vancouver, so that may be the older
meaning. <BR>> And if the name is Kwak'wala (Kwakiutl), does that help
explain its wide <BR>> distribution? (Speakers of Kw. & closely
related languages traditionally <BR>> live in territories pretty far
northward from here.)<BR>> <BR>> -Dave R.<BR>> <BR>> To respond to
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