/pLEX/ is Jargon?

[David Robertson]

Hi, could someone help me?

Apparently M. Dale Kinkade suggested that the Nxa'amxcin or Moses-Columbia 
Salish word /pLEX/ 'Indian dope, love medicine' might have come from Chinuk 
Wawa.

(L = slurpy l, E = schwa, X = back x.)

This is noted as a personal communication from Dale in Ewa Czaykowska-
Higgins and Marie Louise Willett's 1997 paper "Simple Syllables in 
Nxa'amxcin", IJAL 63(3):385-411.  

Do any of you recognize this word?

--Dave R

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