Penutian "musmus"? (fwd from D. Hymes)

David D. Robertson ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU
Fri Sep 12 23:08:45 UTC 2003


The words in Chinookan for 'deer' are not
like -musmus.  The word for 'elk' is'mulak,
which may be suggestive, but not quite enough.

But Molale unfortuately I don't know.
Melville Jacobs did some work with a woman
Molale speaker, but if I remember right, it was
not published.



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