tyee / tia

Alan H. Hartley ahartley at D.UMN.EDU
Fri Apr 18 13:40:26 UTC 2003


Can anyone tell me what is the relationship between tyee and tia?
Meriwether Lewis writes [3 Jan 06 in Gary Moulton's edition of the
Journals 6.162] "we were visited by our near neighbours, Chief or Tia
[a-acute], Co-mo-wool..and six Clatsops." Moulton says in a note that
tia is the Chinookan word for 'chief', equivalent to the CJ term tayi
(from Nootkan).

Thanks,

Alan



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