mEkmEk haws Iktas

[Scott E. Tyler]

I have seen where
	mamook chuk  was used to mean boil water for cooking
	mamook liplip  to make water boil

	Way back last year Dave made a comment about a term from
the Spokane area,
	Mamook kol  used to describe making a fire.  This seems to lead to a
little confusion
because kol is usually used to mean  Cold, but if the individual was using
Coal for the fuel
he certainly could have meant make a coal fire.
	mamook kol   and  mamook paya  therefore could mean to make heat for
cooking.
	I like the term stobe, it sounds like grandma talking.
	Does mamook piah wapato  mean cook a potato ?
	Seems like you could shorter a term to
	mamook stob  to mean get a fire started in the cook stove.
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Cleven [SMTP:ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM]
> Sent:	Saturday, February 12, 2000 8:09 PM
> To:	CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject:	Re: mEkmEk haws Iktas
>
> David Robertson wrote:
> >
> > LhaXayEm.
> >
> > I've been given to understand that an established word for stove is
> > /stup/, from the English word, you know.
> >
> > By the way, I wasn't using standard jargon when I recently wrote a
> message
> > with the word /khUk/ in it for "cook(ing)".  A more established term
> would
> > be /munk paya/.  The English loanword does however occur in various
> > sources, including _Kamlups Wawa_.
>
> I think that munk/mamook piah translates as "cooking" (rather than
> "making fire", which is a different activity), when it is within a
> context of food.  Mamook piah wapato, e.g., where the meaning is clearly
> to cook wapato i.e. "make heat/fire [in] wapato".  If you were to say
> "mamook piah [kopa] lapellah" or "mamook piah [kopa] stob", you might
> still only be talking about _stoking_ the oven/barbeque or stove, rather
> than the act of cooking on the device.....
>
> Mike Cleven
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