Talapus 'Coyote'

[Ross Clark (FOA LING)]

It's taken me a while to get back to my notes, but I knew I had seen
something else like this. Gabriel Franchere's Chinook vocabulary has
'Etalapass' glossed as 'God, or the Supreme Being'. I wondered about the
connection with 'coyote' at the time (transformer >> creator?). Is this as
far as it goes in CJ? Is there a word like this in Chinook proper?

Ross Clark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: phil cash cash [mailto:pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET]
> Sent: Friday, 1 February 2002 5:22 a.m.
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> Subject: Talapus 'Coyote'
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> 
> [talapóosa] n. Nez Perce.  prayer, religion, worship
> 
> the verb form would have an added suffix inflection.  i do not recall
> seeing this word in the Thomas dictionary.  maybe someone can point it
> out to me, thanks.  
> 
> the etymological-mythographical connection between this form and CJ
> [talapus] 'coyote' may not be here.  rather, i think it may be related
> to the Nez Perce entry for 'fox' [tilípe].   
> 
> i would be curious what other forms might be present for [talapus].
> 
> phil cash cash
> cayuse/nez perce
> 
> > > Incidentally, there's at least one peripheral Nez Perce loan in CJ
> that
> > > hasn't been mentioned much.  Thomas' dictionary has 
> 'talapusha' for
> 'to
> > > pray', in the English section only.  As I recall, the Nez 
> Perce stem
> for
> > > this meaning is /tarapoca/.
> > 
> > Might there be any etymological-mythographical connection here to
> > talapus/t'alapus?  i.e. Coyote the Trickster?
> > 
> > MC
> 
> see RE: [fwd from A. Grant:] Cayuse, Molala, Nez Perce, CJ
>