Cathlaminimin

phil cash cash pasxapu at DAKOTACOM.NET
Mon Jan 28 05:09:13 UTC 2002


This sounds very familiar to me, so i looked up Melville Jacobs 1931
"Northwest Sahaptin Grammar" and came up with the following:

kwEEta-thlam-ma...?
travel.on-person.who-DISTRIBUTIVE.PLURAL...-?
"travelers"...?

[kwEEta-] 'travel on' where [-EE-] is a "mid front wide" vowel
[thlam-] 'person who' where [-thl-] is a lateral fricative
[ma-] is a DIST.PL

...at least for the first part of the main stem this is what is
available.  the ending suffix of this word is less familiar, that is,
[-nimin].

phil cash cash
cayuse/nez perce

> I know this is Chinookan rather than Jargon business, but can anyone
> etymologize Cathlaminimin for me? (I know the gaLa- part.)
>
> Thanks, Alan



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