Another example of doubling....

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Also, according to Duane, words were elongated to emphasize them,
such as saaaai-ah for very far.

Regards,

Jeff

On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:24:06 -0800, you wrote:

>I've been slaving away on compiling a Chinook-English reference section for
>my site (organized alphabetically) and came across "siah-siah" (in Shaw)
>for "very far".  Doesn't fall into the "changed" category like pil-pil, but
>is an "augmented" meaning.
>
>One thing that did occur to me - "pish" in single form would be taken as
>"fish", whereas the "pish-pish" seems invariably to be cat or cougar (in
>the Puget Sound-Columbia area, anyway).  Would "puss" ever have occurred in
>an undoubled form?
>
>As far as the Chinook-English alphabetical thing goes; I'm going through my
>Shaw-based English-Chinook pages and reversing everything, then pulling a
>massive "sort" (in Word); then I'll add in all the stuff from my other
>pages, including the Kamloops Wawa, Jacobs, Anderson, and other lists and
>anything else around.  Then ONE BIG SORT, and hopefully I'll be able to
>make it easily searchable.....I'll try and include the Grande Ronde
>spellings eventually, as well as the ASCII renderings.......Gawd, what a
>lot of work!