Tilicum

[Andy Horton]

Hello,

Thanks for the extra information about "Tilicum". the name of the boat had
(it has now been broken up after a fire) just the one "l" in the name and
was a 40 ft tender from a Royal Navy ship, built circa 1919. 

I have found with tracing the etymology of words that it is often best to
obtain local knowledge as the ordinary dictionaries can be misleading or do
not contain enough detail. cf. twitten and twitchel (Old English).

Sometimes, the etymon can only be intelligently guessed at and this applies
to the toponymy of Saxon place names in England, and even more to the
earlier Celtic names, as there were no written records.

I assume that this also applies to the Wakashan Languages and where the
words have been used in Chinook, it might not be possible to prove which
language/tribe they came from, but some experts or enthusisasts might have
a good idea from circumstantial evidence, hence the trawl.

Cheers

Andy Horton
bmlss at compuserve.com
Writer & Photographer
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/BMLSS/shoreham.html 
(Shoreham-by-Sea, England)

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