Troubled waters under a bridge

[Jeffrey Kopp]

Hi, Dave.  Thanks for the suggestion.  For these people who want a
romantic Jargon name, though, I figure they wouldn't want any
English-sounding words. 

I first presumed there wouldn't be a native word for "bridge." But
then I realized downed trees were probably used (or may have been
felled to use) as bridges across creeks or ravines, where fording,
canoeing or climbing may have been inconvenient.  Such a concept
might have had a name (more specific than just "tree across"
whatever) (albeit not in Jargon). And having learned of the elaborate
home construction accomplished with planks of cedar, and fishing
scaffolds, I wonder, were bridges perhaps also built?   I also just
thought of the legend of the Columbia's "Bridge of the Gods."
(Myth?) 

Regards,

Jeff

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 16:46:01 -0400, "Dave Robertson"
<TuktiWawa at NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:

>Howdy,
>
>Welp, I've seen the English word "bridge" borrowed directly into _Kamloops Wawa_ Chinook Jargon.  A literal-minded translation would thus look like <masachi chok kikuli kopa brich> in that variety of CJ.
>
>Dave
>
>