<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Scott,<br><br>the Chinook Wawa words for "hawk" that I've found in various sources are:<br>- shak-shak (Gill 1887, Tate 1889?, Downing&Clarke 1898 - looks suspiciously similar to chak-chak "bald eagle", isn't it)?<br>- shakirk (Anderson 1857);<br>- shakir (Anonymous - "Old employee, formerly of the Hudson Bay Company");<br>- skakairk (Hutchings&Rosenfield 1860, Hibben&Carswell 1862, Macdonald 1863)<br>- skaikeek (quoted by Don Boucher in a message to this List posted on 14 Dec. 1998))<br>- hawk (Shaw 1909)<br><br>I hope it helps.<br><br>Francisc<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 11/14/08, scott dano <i><scottdano@GMAIL.COM></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: scott dano <scottdano@GMAIL.COM><br>Subject: chinook wawa word for hawk<br>To:
CHINOOK@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG<br>Date: Friday, November 14, 2008, 12:17 AM<br><br><pre>How do you say the Chinook wawa word for hawk?<br><br>To respond to the CHINOOK list, click 'REPLY ALL'. To respond<br>privately to the sender of a message, click 'REPLY'. Hayu masi!<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>
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