Terms for chickens in NW indigenous languages (fwd)

[Liland Brajant ROS']

>
>(Dave:)
>>>
>>>As Nootka sounds, so sounds the Interior.  Nl~e7kepmxcin / Thompson
>>>River Salish, nx7amxcin / Moses Columbian Salish, Secwepemctsin /
>>>Shushwap Salish, and the Chinook Jargon of _Kamlups Wawa_, have
>>>words on the order of [chIk at n(s)].
>>>
>>>The latter language also has [likok], but it's very rare there, and
>>>is termed in Father LeJeune's "Chinook Rudiments" a word used
>>>elsewhere than Kamloops.
>>>
>>>On the other hand, Npoqinis^cn / Spokane Salish has [likok]; many
>>>other Interior languages also took their words for "chicken" from
>>>standard CJ.
>>>
>>>Upper Chehalis Salish has [skwinm], which originally meant "ruffed
>>>grouse".  But it also has [lust@] for "rooster", interestingly.
>
>(Dell:)
>>>In Wasco-Wishram Chinook, 'hen' is a-likuk and 'rooster' is i-likuk
>>(a- feminine, i-masculine)  Dell H
>>> *VISIT the archives of the CHINOOK jargon and the SALISHAN &
>neighboring*
>
>So, is Upper Chehalis [skwinm] in its extended (domestic fowl) sense
>"chicken" or "hen" or do we know?  Is [lust@] in semantic opposition to
>[skwinm] or a subset of it?  If I understood Sally right, in Montana
>Salish |likok| and |lapul| (give or take a vowel) are m and f
>respectively; does that language have a generic, gender-neutral term?
>
>(Remembering, too, that as with "the right way to call a cat in language
>X" there may be idiolectal variation on points like these, with (a la
>Inuktitut's nine billion words for snow) those who actually raise
>poultry more likely to draw picky distinctions than those who don't,
>etc.)
>
>lilend
>
>(if you get two of this, sorry, but the thread's obviously pertinent to
>both Salishan and ChiWawa...; heck, I'll probably get two of it back in
>my face myself!)

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