Any other Ojibway words in the Jargon?

Mike Cleven ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM
Mon Dec 24 03:12:18 UTC 2001


Jeffrey Kopp wrote:
>
> Klahowya.
>
> I received an inquiry, the salient portion of which is below.  I was
> going to write back explaining that there was no connection, "wawa"
> in Jargon came from Nootka, Nittinat and/or Chinook (citing Gibbs and
> Shaw).  But I thought before replying I would look to see how many
> Ojibway words did make it into the Jargon, and came up with only
> muckamuck.  Ojibway had a pretty wide range.  Aren't there others?

Wasn't "lepishemo" (saddle blanket) from Ojibway?

MC



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