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

[phil cash cash]

A possibility exists in a Sahaptian link.  The word for deer is:

'ímes 'deer' (Nez Perce)
yáamash 'mule deer' (Sahaptin)

one far-fetched theory states that the term was borrowed in ancient 
times into the eastern region (algonqian?) and later formed the modern 
representation such moose, etc.  Ultimately, this leads us back to 
/musmus/.

i've been searching high and low for the original article by the 
linguist Goodard.  it is in a very, very remote publication that i 
could never get my hands on.

phil cash cash


On Friday, September 12, 2003, at 04:08  PM, David D. Robertson wrote:

> 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.
>