name of Vancouver BC

[Scott Tyler]

o  tlaas ! (hey all!)
The only name I am familiar with is Bakooba which is could be a jargonization of Vancouver.
Like Biktoli for Victoria,  and  sii' atl  for Seattle.
Though  sii' atl may be an original Native word---I heard in a Chinook song at Neah Bay.

tloosh nanich na siks
Scott/ooshtaqi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Robertson" <ddr11 at COLUMBIA.EDU>
To: <CHINOOK at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 8:58 AM
Subject: OT: name of Vancouver BC


> Off topic a little, but maybe interesting:
> 
> Ts'amas / Ts'amis / Ts'am'as
> 
> is the name of Vancouver, BC in languages of at least 3 unrelated families:
> 
> Wakashan, Salish and Tsimshian.
> 
> A Kwak'wala speaker has told me it means "pointing place", referring to the 
> spires of all the churches in a city.  She has it as the name of Victoria, 
> BC as well as of Vancouver.
> 
> I wonder how this name got shared so widely? Victoria is older, and for a 
> while was more important than Vancouver, so that may be the older meaning.  
> And if the name is Kwak'wala (Kwakiutl), does that help explain its wide 
> distribution?  (Speakers of Kw. & closely related languages traditionally 
> live in territories pretty far northward from here.)
> 
> -Dave R.
> 
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