Practice Text #3 from _Kamloops Wawa_

[Dave Robertson]

Klahawiam,

Henry, thank you for the following note.  You bring up a good point, which is that in _Kamloops Wawa_, Father Le Jeune sometimes used the helping-verb (or causative) <mamuk>, and its absence, in distinctive ways.  As an example of this, I used simply <kakshit> rather than <mamuk kakshit> for "hit" in the question quoted below.  I also tried to pointedly give verbal, rather than adjective or noun, meanings for /kakshit/ in the accompanying vocabulary list.

Within Grand Ronde Jargon, the question below would be likely interpreted the way you understand it, Henry, and your translation with /q'wEL/ (/q'wElh/) shows the comparative richness of the GR lexicon.

That said, I can imagine a speaker of the _Kamloops Wawa_ variety of CJ being perfectly understood by a Grand Ronde speaker.  The difference in use of /mamuk/ is of a comparatively trivial magnitude, and in fact is one which recurs in numerous varieties of CJ attested in written sources.  Even within GR Jargon, there are some instances where the presence or absence of the helping verb /mamuk/ makes no difference in the meaning of a verb.

Thank you for sharing a Jargon word that many folks are probably unfamiliar with!

Dave

zenk at uswestmail.net wrote:

>Dave,
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>One brief comment highlighting what may be a difference between Fr. Lejeune's and "my" Wawa (and I'll leave it to you whether it rates going out to the list):
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>> 3: Ikta tuls nsaika tiki pus kakshit nils?
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>My first intuition would be to read this:  what tools do we need for ruined (damaged, bent, whatever) nails? Which would send me to the ad looking for a crowbar or some such.  For 'hit, pound' I would probably use q'wEL (>q'wEL-q'wEL), which of course may not be in the Kamloops lexicon.  Henry
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