"Shoreline"

Say, got one I need to toss past some fresh eyes.

My kid brother, in putting together a Cd of his bands music ("pop-rock
with a rhythmic flair"), got a bunch of us together to do a drum track
and on a whim he decide to call us who drummed "The Shoreline Tribal
Council".  Then he thought and decided he would like to use the Chinook
Jargon to give things a different flavor; he's used Jargon for a couple
lines in a song he wrote. =20

The "Shoreline" in the "Shoreline Tribal Council" is the name of a school
district and most recently the name of a new city/township north of
Seattle, within the Shoreline School District.  In the context of the=20
school district, there were two high school, Shoreline and Shorecrest
(and the third, Shorewood, opened in 1977), and the school district
itself is bounded on the east by Lake Washington and to the west by Puget
Sound.

So, to cut to the chase, he sends me email asking:

>How do you say "shoreline" in Chinook Jargon?

Instead of answering him, I took him my Edward Harper Thomas book and he
chose the word Mahtlinnie.  Since this all went on on the day we laid
down the drum track, I nodded and said that sounded good.

Then I got to thinking about it, and took a look myself and found two
other words that could also work.

So.  Mr Thomas' book says this about all three words...=20

Mahtlinnie (maht-lin-nie): Off shore; out at sea.  (Used two ways: if in
a boat it is then to keep off; if on land it is to go toward the water.)

Mahtwillie (mah-twil-lie): In shore, shoreward, on land, towards the
interior (The opposite of mahtlinnie.)
=20
Nauits (nau-its) Off shore; on the stream, the sea beach

To my mind, I think perhaps that Nauits might be a better word, mostly
because it looks like it would apply to fresh (Lake Washington) OR salt
water (Puget Sound).

I thought about just plain beach, which is where I found Nauits.

So.  Comments...?

Lisa
lisapeppan at juno.com
http://www.escargot.com/lisap

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