Algonquian words in CJ and in an Algonquian pidgin

[David Robertson]

Klahowya, sikhs,

Okoke sun nika nanich ole book "An Ancient New Jersey Indian Jargon", J.
Dyneley Prince yaka mamook tzum yaka spose _American Anthropologist_ kopa
1912 sno.

(Evolution Press weght mamook okoke book kopa 1997 sno, kopa Southampton,
Pennsylvania.)

Pe nika nanich tenas hiyu iktas, klaska mamook nika tumtum "delate kahkwa
Chinook Wawa okoke"!

Yukwa klaska mitlite:

tipso 10:	"moos, cow [also:] muse
		"squatid, girls [...] squaw + dim[inutive] -tit
tipso 24:	"muse, cow [...] mos; now='deer' and 'elk'
		"mwes, elk [...] mos; moos
tipso 27:	"opposicon, beyond yourself=drunk.  Probably = [...]
		achpussin 'broil, roast'; here = achpussikan 'he broils
		him; he is broiled'; slang (?)
tipso 28:	"piackickan, gun; [...] paiachkikan, 'gun'; lit. 'one
		fires it off; from paiach-kammen 'fire off'.  Contains
		Eng. 'fire'=paia; cf. Chinook Jargon word piah 'fire'.
		The consonant f is foreign to many Indian languages."

Nika tumtum okoke <opposicon> klonas yaka wake siah kahkwa Chinook Wawa
<la-pel-lah> "roast before a fire".  Klonas Ojibwe Algonquian pi Metis
Pasiooks wawa, konamoxt klaska mamook chee tenas wawa kahkwa.

Yukwa nesika nanich delate ahnkuttie Boston tillicums pe Algonquian siwash
tillicums klaska wawa konamoxt, tenas-hiyu kahkwa nesika Chinook Wawa.

Dave




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