Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon
or Indian Trade Language of the North Pacific Coast
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boos. The mouth; the mouth of a river. Moxt laboos, the fork of a river.
La-boo-ti. A bottle.
La-cal-at. A carrot.
La-ca-set. A box, trunk or chest.
La-clo-a. A cross.
Lagh. To lean; to tip as a boat; to stoop; to bend over as a tree. Wake mika lagh kopa okoot house, don't lean against that house.
La-gome. Pitch; glue. La gome stick, light-wood; the pitch-pine.
La-gwin. A saw.
La-hal. See Slahal.
Lahb. The arbutus.
La-hash. An axe or hatchet.
Lakit. Four; four times. Lakit tahtlelum, forty.
La-kles. Fat; oil.
La-lah. To cheat; fool; to practice jokes. Mamook lalah, to make fun.
La-lahm. An oar. Mamook lalahm, to row.
La-lang. The tongue; a language.
La-lim. A file.
La-messe. The ceremony of the mass.
La-mes-tin. Medicine.
Lam-mi-eh. An old woman.
La-mon-ti. A mountain.
La-peep. A tobacco pipe. Lapeep kullakala, the pipe bird.
La-pehsh. A pole; the setting po
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