Jewitt etc

[David Robertson]

Hi, Sally, pi lhaxayem, kanawi-lhaksta,

Hayash masi for mentioning the Sturtevant article on a pre-CJ Nootka
jargon!  I'd love to dig that one up and read it.

Khapa the 'distorted phonology' of Nootka words in CJ, indicating an
English channel (of transmission!), here's a list of *all* the words I've
noted in Jewitt and in Mozin~o's vocabulary list, that made it into
pan-NW CJ. Note that I've not yet
tallied all the Nootka words used in the *text* of Mozin~o's "Noticias de
Nutka".  I've also just gotten the vocabulary of "Aht" (Nuu-chah-nulth /
Nootka) copied from Sproat's "Scenes and Studies of Savage Life", 1868.
(Ouch!)

MOZIN~O				JEWITT		


clutz-ma, "woman"		klootz-mah, "woman"					
ta-naz, "boy"			tanassis, "child"
?tzia-pugs, "hat"
mo-huec, "deer"			moo-watch, "bear"
??cha-mas, "fruit in general"	cham-mass, "fruit"				
cha-ac, "water"
?tza-ac, "river"
?ha-yo, "ten"
co-co-coa, "like or as"
sa-ya, "far"
huic, "no"			wik, "no"
ma-cu-co, "exchange or buy"	ma-kook, "sell"
?pachitle, "give"
hui-na-pe', "be"
?cap-xitl, "steal, pilfer"
ma-muc, "work"			MA-MOOK-su-mah, "go to fish"
na-na-nichi, "see"
				pow-ee, "halibut"
				sick-a-minny, "iron"
				cha-alt-see-KLAT-TUR-WAH, "go off/away"
				i-ya-hish, "much"
				kom-me-tak, "I understand"
				?kah-ah-coh, "bring it"

Note that ? indicates an item that may correspond to a CJ item, but of
which I'm unsure.  ?? indicates an item I doubt as having come into CJ.
CAPITALS indicate the relevant part of a given entry.

Sproat's rather excellent "vocabulary of the Aht language" marks items he
says were "invented since their contact with White Men".  The only
CJ-looking stuff  I
find in a preliminary scan of these words follows:

kah-pooh, "a coat"
Sunday koilh, "the church at Alberni"

That's all.  --Say, I've got to meet friends now, but I'll send this and
try to follow up on it a bit later with questions and observations on
possible Englishinfluence on these words as they came into CJ.


Best
wishes,


Dave...............................................................................
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