KIWA

[Leanne Riding]

I was wondering the other day about a few other CJ words that can refer
to direction : "Ket-op" rise (Hale), "Keekwilee" below (Hale), "Kimta"
(Hale) behind, "katsuk" (Hale) middle, "Kelapi" turn (Hale). Is there
some relationship between that "k" sound in CJ at the beginning and the
concept of direction? At the very least its an intersting way to group
them for learning.

For some reason I have the impression that the word "mowitch," or deer,
is not from the Pacific but further east. ???

-- Leanne

On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 09:37 , David Robertson wrote:

> This is interesting, and is quite a coincidence since CJ <kiwa> is
> from a
> Pacific NW language, Chinookan I assume.  There, it's approximately
> q'ay7wa -- not close enough to the Algonquian forms cited by Yann and
> Alan
> for any confusion to have occurred in speech.  I'd think the resemblance
> between CJ kiwa & the Algonquian forms is due to the Jargon word having
> been written 'in English'.

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