<klas>, Fr. Chirouse: More juicy stuff from _Kamlups Wawa_

[Jim Holton]

Dave, I looked up _sho_ in Johnson's book and I found out that there is one
dictionary with the word.  It is the 1909 version of John Gill's dictionary.
He has a word _shoo_ meaning "old."  Maybe 4 old men were along?
Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of that version of Gill's, my photo copy is
of an early version.  Another Idea is it might be a truncation of the word for
"rattle," LeJuene's _shoh_.  Anyhow, that's my two cents. Jim



> >From the same issue and page, lines 3 to 5:
>
>         Kopa Fraidi pulakli, Shun 14, Pir Shirus kanamokst Pir Ror, pi
>         lakit *sho* kopa Skrhomish, chako kopa Kamlups.
>
>         I.e.  "On Friday evening, June 14, pere Chirouse together with
>         pere Rohr, and four *?* from Skrhomish, came to Kamloops."
>
> (If anyone has an idea what <sho> means, I would be grateful for your
> suggestions.)  This is about the well-known Father Chirouse, pioneering
> missionary on Puget Sound, coming to preach to the Kamloops-area Indians
> in ChInuk for several days.  He had already worked among the Cayuse, Nez
> Perce, and Coast Salish.
>
> Dave
>
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