Alternate names for Salmon in Chinook Wawa

[Yakima Belle]

ikwEna? Is this the origin of Yaquina?

--- Francisc Czobor <fericzobor at YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> LaXayEm !
>    
>   In an article of Phil Cash Cash: “Sources for
> Chinook Jargon, a Pacific Northwest Pidgin”
>
(http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cashcash/CJ_sources_pcc.pdf),
> at page 4 it is stated: “Chinook Jargon shows
> numerous lexical items for this form, such as samon
> (English), ikwEna (Chinook Proper), lohar (Nootka),
> and salowek (unidentified source).”
>    
>   Regarding the form “lohar”, I have written to the
> author that I suspect a typo here, because all the
> sources for Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) indicate a word
> beginning with “s”: sohar (Jewitt 1816:
> http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/29581/0211),
> soha (Curtis 1916:
>
http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.11.book.00000289&volume=11),
> suHaa or suuHaa (modern articles, like
>
http://roa.rutgers.edu/files/716-0205/716-KIM-0-0.PDF).
>    
>   Now, about “salowek”: isn’t it of Salishan origin?
> I suspect this because of two reasons:
>    
>   1. It is attested (in the form “sallo-waek”) in
> dictionaries or vocabularies having also some other
> Salishan words not attested elsewhere
> (Hutchings&Rosenfield 1860, Hibben&Carswell 1862,
> Macdonald 1863)
>    
>   2. In Saanich
> (http://www.cas.unt.edu/~montler/Saanich/WordList/)
> there is a word quite similar, xwsElewE (with
> superscript w), meaning “sockeye salmon”.
>    
>   aLki wEXt,
>   Francisc
>    
> 
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