Klee Wyck - Nootkan or Jargon?

[Dave Robertson]

Lhush san,

Wek nawitka naika tomtom chinuk ukuk, klunas nutka telikom klaska wawa kakwa.

Dave

Mike Cleven <ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM> wrote:
>
> Canadians in the group may recognize the appelation, which was the
> pic-signing name and adopted moniker of painter Emily Carr; "Laughing
> One".  In an article on revived interest in her work (actually the
> interest never went away, but such articles show up from time to time to
> stoke interest from newer locals unfamiliar with her work) in today's
> Vancouver Sun, the appelation "Klee Wyck" is attributed to the "language
> of the people she worked among, the Nootka" (pararphase; the original
> can be found in the Features Section at http://www.vancouversun.com;
> those of you who are unfamiliar with her work might as well trot over
> there and have a gander; sublime, mystical, masterly....).  My reading
> of this name is that it's Jargon "klee"=> joy, laughter, "wyck" like the
> "-wit" ending in "kliminawhit".
>
> Is the "wyck/whit" ending Nootkan in nature, and hence words in the
> Jargon featuring this (primarily kliminawhit, although IIRC there's a
> couple more) have a Nootkan root.  But the first part - "klee" - seems
> clearly Jargon to me, unless there's something in the Nootkan vocabulary
> that would disprove this.  Takers?
>
> MC
>
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