Pronunciation of "eulachon"

[Francisc Czobor]

Shaw's _oolchus_ "herring" looks to be a different word. It appears with the same spelling (oolchus) and same meaning ("herring") in the Untitled Dictionary with unknown author found without its cover tucked inside another Jargon dictionary acquired at an estate sale (http://chinookjargon.home.att.net/unkdic.htm, page 24), and also in Ross' "Chinook Vocabulary", page 328: Owl-chaus "Herrings".
   
  Francisc

Sally Thomason <thomason at UMICH.EDU> wrote:
  David Lewis's article will have a lot more detail,
but here are a few spellings from my CW files:

Gass (March 9, 11, 1806): ulken `small fish'.

R. Stuart (June, 1812; see K. Spaulding, ed., 1953:33):
Uth-le-chan `a fish like a smelt, 6" long, very fat
-- Indians burn it like a candle -- and delicious'
[This spelling suggests that the lateral is a fricative,
and the spellings "lh" and "lk" and possibly even
"lch" below may also indicate a lateral fricative.]

Pinart (1849:283): oulhan [with a short mark over the a] 
`espece de petit poisson gras' 

Shaw (1909:51): oolchus `herring'.


-- Sally Thomason

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