<div>Salut, Yann</div> <div> </div> <div>sno "snow" is used for winter and thus for year, exactly like kol (ixt kol "1 year" etc.)</div> <div>I have already seen "sno" meaning "year" in one of Le Jeune's publications (in "Chinook Rudiments", or in "Chinook and shorthand rudiments", one of these two).</div> <div> </div> <div>As Anthony already wrote, lamiaii "old woman" is attested in all versions of Chinook Jargon (variants: lamiyay, lamyey, lammieh, lammii, lummieh, lummi, lemeyi, labielle, lebya) and is considered to come from French "la vieille".</div> <div> </div> <div>Francisc<BR><BR><B><I>vincent yann <janilta@YAHOO.FR></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Hey Dave,<BR><BR>Hope you're fine. Another kid? Makes three? Nice<BR>family indeed.<BR><BR>Thanks for these short texts. Best linguistic<BR>training.<BR><BR>In this one :<BR>sno=snow=year ?<BR>limiaii
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