/pLEX/ is Jargon?

[hzenk at PDX.EDU]

Thanks so much for that, Francisc.  I have truly wracked my brain over that one.
 Henry

Quoting Francisc Czobor <fericzobor at yahoo.com>:

> Re-reading Ross's "Chinook Vocabulary" I have foud the answer to a query of
> Henry Zenk in his messages of June 9 and 10: where got Gill the word eptlach
> (O.C., that is "Old Chinook") = "medicine"?
>   Ross has Eptl-ach = Medicine (the last entry on page 327).
>
>   Francisc
>
> hzenk at PDX.EDU wrote:
>   -pLEX is recorded in Wasco as 'medicine'. Jacobs also records Clackamas
> -blEX
> 'medicine, poison'. The Demers dictionary has Chinuk Wawa optlaH (H for the
> "h" with its right leg lopped off) 'liniment' (the o- suggests that this is a
> feminine noun, while the Wasco and Clackamas citations all appear with the
> masculine prefix i-; this suggests that the stem could have had different
> meanings in Chinookan depending on its gender prefix). And finally, Dale
> Kinkade has Upper Chehalis plEX with the following translation and note:
> "aphrodisiac, Spanish fly, love medicine, love charm; possibly a loan from
> Chinook, via Chinook Jargon eptlach." Dale got the latter ("eptlach") from S.
> V. Johnson I believe, who in turn got it from one of Gill's dictionaries.
> Where Gill pulled it out of I've never been able to trace: he labels the item
> "O.C" = Old Chinook, that is, not Chinook Jargon at all. Henry
>
> Quoting 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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