Idiom in Kamloops Wawa for "a rough/violent situation"

hzenk at PDX.EDU hzenk at PDX.EDU
Wed Jun 1 20:16:11 UTC 2005


> "aias til mamuk", literally "a big/very hard job" or "really tough doings".
>

For what it's worth, we have "hayash thil" as 'heavy'.  I think that may be in
some of the historical sources with the same meaning as well, though don't have
refs at my fingertips.  Henry

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