Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon by George Gibbs
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French _chez vous_); cultus kopa nika, _it is nothing to me. Q._ Kah okook
lope? _where is that rope? A._ (motioning with the chin towards the place) Kopáh. ~Ko-pet'~, _v., adv._ Chinook, idem. _To stop; leave off; enough._ Kopet wau-wau, _stop talking;_ kopet ikt, _only one;_ kopet okook, _that's all;_ wake siah kopet, _nearly finished;_ kopet tomalla, _day after to-morrow._ ~Kow~, _v._ Chinook, KAU-KAU. _To tie; to fasten._ Kow mika kiuatan, _tie your horse;_ ikt kow, _a bundle._ ~Kull~, _adj._ Chinook, K'HUL-K'HUL. _Hard in substance; difficult._ Chahko kull, _to become hard;_ mamook kull, _to harden; to cause to become hard;_ hyas kull spose mamook, _it is very hard to do so;_ kull stick, _oak or any hard wood._ ~Kul-lagh'~, or ~Kul-lagh'-an~, _n._ Chihalis, KULLAKH; Lummi, KULLUKHAN. _A fence; a corral, or inclosure._ Kullagh stick, _fence rails._ In the original, it meant the stockade with which Indian houses are often surrounded. ~Kum'-tuks~, or ~Káme-taks~, _v._ Nootka, KOMMETAK (Jewitt); Tokwaht, KUMITUKS; Clayoquot, KEMITAK. _To know; understand; be acquainted with; imagine; believe._ Mamook kumtuks, _to explain; teach;_ hyas kumtuks solleks (literally, _well to understand anger), to be passionate;_ kopet kumtuks, _to forget;_ halo kumtuks, _stupid; without understanding;_ (of a horse) hyas yakka kumtuks cooley, _he can run fast_ (literally, _he knows well to run_); kumtuks kliminawhit, _to be a liar; to understand lying;_ nika kumtuks okook tyee, _I know that chief;_ nika kumtuks Klikatat wau-wau, _I understand the Klikatat language._ |
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