People who had Chinook Jargon names

[Scott Tyler, M.D.]

Here is a couple nice nick names!

 boos boos boy--from Neah Bay for cowboy,  boos boos comes from moos moos
for cow

 kloot for man's nick name,  from klootchman for woman

 skookum chuck  for big charlie, also means 'rapids or strong waters'

 moos moos for 'old buffalo' from Yakama, also used by some Nuchanulth for
'old bull' as a man's nick name, from moos moos for cow

 Scott










> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mike Cleven [SMTP:ironmtn at BIGFOOT.COM]
> Sent:	Thursday, November 08, 2001 5:15 PM
> To:	CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> Subject:	Re: People who had Chinook Jargon names
>
> "David D. Robertson" wrote:
> >
> > LaXayam,
>
> > What other Chinook Jargon personal names can you think of?  Share them
> on
> > the list, and maybe we'll figure out more answers to these questions.
>
>
> Perhaps the most famous of them all - Skookum Jim, who was the
> co-discoverer of the Klondike Goldfields......I believe he was Interior
> Tlinkit.....
>
> The Oleman and Scotchman families of the Lillooet area have retained
> their family names since frontier times; although the feeling there is
> that "Oleman" comes from "Oldman" (an Irish family name) rather than
> from the Chinook "oleman"; methinks that speakers and users wouldn't
> have noticed the difference.....
>
> One proper name that occurred to me lately _may_ be Jargon is the name
> of the small river ferry at Ft. Langley-Albion; "T'lagunna", which at
> first read looks very Salishan and maybe is; but if t'l=>kl then there's
> an echo of the Chinook "klakwun" (to wipe, to wipe clean).  How this
> relates to what this word is supposed to be - the native name for the
> Golden Ears, the peaks which overlook the area - is beyond me; Terry G
> would know if this is a Halqemeylem-Kwantlen/Katzie name, however.....
>
> MC