Washington place names

[Dave Robertson]

Thanks for the link, Emmett.  I'm glad to see some activity on the list.  

For my part, I recently moved from Victoria to Spokane, where I'm starting 
a new job.  So I haven't had much spare time.  

But here's a brief note.  A letter by a Shuswap man discusses someone 
learning to "mamuk kriit" (or "mamuk krilt").  Since this person elsewhere 
interjects some Salish in his writing, I wonder if the second word could 
be Shuswap.  Shorthand <kr> often stands for a popping [q'] sound.  Maybe 
we have something like /q'ey'-t/ here, a stative form based on the root 
for 'writing'.  This exact form isn't listed in the Shuswap sources I use 
for some current work.  (Another cause of my freetimelessness.)  But who 
knows?

More Jargon letters soon!

--Dave R

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