solemai etymology?

[Tony Johnson]

Deyv pi khanawi-Laksta,

A few notes although I am frustrated because I thought I had something
more on this.  I will keep looking.  Anyway:

Emma Luscier (of Willapa Bay, WA) gives su'lEmix for cranberries in
Chinuk Wawa.  She noted "isu'ulUmix" as "real Chinook" (as opposed to
Wawa).  It should be noted that she was not a Chinookan speaker though.
She does give two Salish forms the first being "Shoalwater Bay" and the
second being "Chehalis."  They are 7Esu'ulEm7sh and 7Esu'ul7lmIsh.  Hope
this is of interest.

aLqi wEXt,

Tony A. Johnson
shawash-ili7i
Grand Ronde, OR

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Subject: solemai etymology?

Is there an established etymology for the word "solemai" that shows up
in 
some Jargon vocabularies?  It means "cranberry".  

I'm struck by the frequency of a morpheme "mai" meaning "berries" in
some 
BC Athabaskan languages, but there aren't a whole lot of Athabaskan
words 
known in Jargon!  You don't suppose the main source of cranberries in
the 
lower Columbia region was in Kwalhioqua - Clatksanie territory, do you?


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