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Mike,
lab is the Makah word for rum or lum in Chinook Jargon.  Some of the
borrowings have undergone a m to b shift over time.  For instance moos =
moos
is boos boos in Makah, etc. Labowas is rum house.  Also, every in NB one
says Opooch for bottom, I think Nisquallis say Opich.   I notice Gills =
has
Opooch as an option pronunciation for opoots.  In Makah the work for =
don't
is wee!k , notice the k is glottalized.  Gills has wik, wake as options, =
and
may be single syllables rather than two.  No one has paid attention to
whether the k is glottalized.  Also is some Chinook songs leaned in NB =
the
word kwas is !kwas  (i.e. the k is glottalized).  In Makah the word Hum =
is
the polite or feminine word for shub.   ees (pronounced like peace) is =
the
polite word for Chugh-shilt or urinate.  ees is used when women go.  Is =
ees
a Chinook Jargon word or similar to anything you have heard.  Youtl as in
chakoo yootl or become proud, is spelled as kl in most books, but I =
believe
it was actually  pronounced as a tl.  In a song the yootl is pronounced
softly for aesthetics.  But one old timer pronounced yootl as yoo!tl-lth.
The tl was glottalized when speaking and he added a lth or lateral L to =
the
end.  Don't know what that means. =20
Wagon in CJ is tsiktsik, or chik chik in Makah it is !tseek !tseek (i.e. =
the
ts is glottalized) and is definitely from CJ.  Is this an original
pronounciation that is preserved because NB is isolated.  The name refers=
 to
the noise wagon wheels make as they turn. They Squeek Squeek as they turn
around. Motor boats are put put but I do not know the exact way to =
pronounce
it and it has been a long time.  This also may be of modern Chinook =
origin
or just the way Makah named things--by some outstanding characteristic.
This may give us some ways to create new Chinook words for new objects by
understanding how or why the original words were made.
  I believe Makah could have really influenced Chinook especially because
most north-south and east-west travel and trade had to pass through Makah
territory.  Around the 'great breast' (i.e. the tip of the Olympic
Penninsula) the very tip of which was called Tatoosh.  Now Tatoosh =
Island.
In Chinook this is totoosh.  This name was even established by the time =
the
Spanish had traveled through and drew pictures of the Chief Tatoosh.  =
Some
elders say the origin of the name for tatoosh was lthoo-lthootch which is
Makah for thunderbird.  But 'breast' sounds reasonable especially
considering the topography.
Well Friend.  Alta Nika klatawa kopa mukowas kehwa hyas olo.=20
Scott Tyler             =20

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Cleven [SMTP:ironmtn at bigfoot.com]
> Sent:	Monday, September 21, 1998 3:29 PM
> To:	Scott E. Tyler; chinook at tincan.org
> Subject:	Re: The use of House
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> At 02:37 PM 9/21/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >In Neah Bay we grew up using the Humm as the nice word for =
'stinky,feces,
> >messy diapers',  we anglosized the term by saying, 'the baby is hummy'=
 or
> >other terms.  We combined this with a suffix for house which is either=
 Makah
> >or a borrowing from Chinook Jargon to make the term huma-owas or =
humowas.
> >Shuba-owas or shubowas for shit house.  Makah for house is ba-as it is
> >possible the owas is a suffix for house or a borrowing of house from
> >Chinook.  Any way -owas makes a neat way to add house to other words.
> >Baku-owas for store, labowas for tavern, nanitchowas for movie =
theater,
> >muckowas for restaruant, etc.=20
>=20
> By the look of it _all_ those terms are of Jargon origin - mahkook =
house,
> labotai house (labar house?), nanitch house, muckamuck house.
>=20
> Tony Johnson at the workshop this last weekend let us in on "humm
> sakolleks" - stinky pants, for a baby's diapers.  Humm house or =
"humowass"
> makes perfect sense in the same regard.....a lot more obvious than
> "klahanie house" (out house).
>=20
> Mike C.
>
>=20
> Mike Cleven
> ironmtn at bigfoot.com
> http://members.home.net/ironmtn/
>=20
> The thunderbolt steers all things.
>                            - Herakleitos