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‘Gun dirt’: A partly Nootka Jargon etymology for púlali?
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‘Gun dirt’: A partly Nootka Jargon etymology for púlali?
How about this new idea about a real old Chinuk Wawa word? Gun dirt! (Image credit: some FB page) The linguistically gifted Astorian fur trader Alexander Ross’s 11th item in his ‘mixed dialect’ vocabularyl list is poll-alley for ‘(lead) balls (that you shoot out of a gun)’. Contrast his te-whoot for ‘powder’, which is from Chinookan words for that concept. This is Chinook Jargon’s púlali for ‘powder’, which is “of obscure origin” (Grand Ronde T…
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