skudee / skudzo

[Francisc Czobor]

Another thing that maybe is well known to others, but I discovered only today.
  It's about the word for "squirrel" found in some 19th century vocabularies: _skudee_ (Anderson 1857 and that of the "Old employee, formerly of the Hudson Bay Company") or _skudzo_ (Hutchings& Rosenfield 1860, Hibben&Carswell 1862, Macdonald 1863). The discovery it that it comes from Lushootseed: s-qEd'u7 (D. Bates, T. Hess, V. Hilbert: Lushootseed Dictionary, University of Washington Press, 1994, page 358). In fact it was expectable for this word to be from Lushootseed, since also other words characteristic for these vocabularies are from Lushootseed (stow(e)below "north", stegwaak "south", mauk "mallard duck", yakolla "eagle", swaawa "cougar", quitchaddy / cuitchaddy "rabbit", skubbyou "skunk"). Together with forms like _sabud_ for "salmon" (with Lushootseed-type denasalisation), these are a proof that those vocabularies are reflecting the Puget Sound version of the Chinook Jargon.
   
  Francisc

 		
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