siwash cosho for "seal"

[Leanne Riding]

I love the bit about the wolf!

I'm not very familiar with makah food history, and only somewhat
familiar with chinook. My impression was that chinook depended very
heavily on the fishery and seal hunting was less important. With
makah was there a greater reliance on marine mammals?

I'm tickled with the idea that maybe makah contributed this word to
CJ by way of sound-alike.

On Wednesday, September 15, 2004, at 07:31 , Scott Tyler wrote:

> k'ash-ch'u  means  seal in Makah and is Makah, don't think it is a
> borrowed
> word.
> And I am not sure how the parts fit together
>  ch'u can be used for things that smell bad, but I do not know if
> this is
> correct for seal.
> Maria might know how this is put together for seal.
>  a wolf is  ch'u ch'u waX siL = bad breath in mouth,
> Scott
>
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