CJ in Samish Dialect of Straits Salish

[David Robertson]

LhaXayEm,

It's interesting that you mention this, Jeff.  For some time now it's
struck my curiosity bone funny to see the similarity of Chinookan /ili7i/
or /ilihi/ with Salishan /7ule7xw/ etc.  (Much in the same way, it's
curious to see that Nootkan and Chinookan have virtually identical roots
/malh/ with the sense "sea".)

But having said that, it doesn't seem apparent to me that any variant of
the Salishan root is present in the Samish word for "turnip".

Lhush san,
Dave

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Jeffrey Kopp wrote:

> Well, to my untrained eye, I kind of see "illahee" in the second half
> of "shxw?ilewE?" (turnip).  So could it be "[unknown something] in
> the ground"?
>
> Jeff
>
> On Sat, 13 Mar 1999 00:09:14 -0800, "David Robertson"
> <drobert at TINCAN.TINCAN.ORG> wrote:
>
> >Jim,
> >
> >I'm unsure whether that word for "turnip" is nonnative.
> >
> >It looks very Salish to me.
> >
> >Best,
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >
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