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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Newer posts →. There are Spiders and then there are spiders. April 10, 2016. In Hanis and Milluk there are two words for spider. Both languages share the word wa’wá’atl’. Occasionally shrunk down to 2 syllables, wawatl’. And then a second word based on the verb ‘to weave, to pile up, to spread’ which is winq-. Respectively. The nominal forms winqas/milqes. Only refers to spiders. The use of winqas/milqes. So when did speakers use one word or the other?
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More place names: Cleawox & Woahink lakes | Shichils's Blog
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). More Place names: Clover Ridge. Munsel Lake, its neighboring lakes, and strange creatures… →. More place names: Cleawox and Woahink lakes. February 2, 2012. The names of two lakes in the vicinity of the town of Florence – Cleawox and Woahink – have long been a little mysterious. Many people have assumed the names are from Siuslaw native names – but are they? Just sharing some fun on language. View all posts by shichils →. More Place names: Clover Ridge.
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Revisiting Woahink and Cleawox | Shichils's Blog
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Revisiting Woahink and Cleawox. July 10, 2015. Three years ago I wrote about. The probable Siuslaw language origins of the names Cleawox. Lakes I just got a new book for a present – Native American Place Names of the United States. 8211; and it was brief entries on our two lakes (along with other names) that sent me running back to Harrington’s notes to figure them out. East wind, and. He [or she] has arrived. The phrase. And the verb root. Which Frac...
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Tenmile Lake | Shichils's Blog
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Revisiting Woahink and Cleawox →. July 1, 2015. I saw in the newsletter they are talking about getting around to renaming Camp Easter Seals. The tribe printed this article a couple of years ago, but to give people ideas for names I am reposting it here. I’ve modified the article a little, adding in a little bit more information, and I’ve added a few links to on wapato and smallpox. A Hanis name for smallpox is qenchííwiye. Loosely meaning ‘the v...
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Wild Beings of the Woods; or, Beware the Beasts of Nightmare | Shichils's Blog
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Wild Beings of the Woods; or, Beware the Beasts of Nightmare. February 4, 2013. In the previous post, I talked about the mysterious giants of the forest; the shiihlwaya. Were far from the only humanoid creatures that walked the woods. At least the. Were regarded as mostly harmless. Not everything lurking in the forests was friendly. Hardly do this definition justice. Which is what girls at the time of menarche and their puberty ceremony were called...
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New Verbs! | Shichils's Blog
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Revisiting Woahink and Cleawox. Flight of the Condor →. July 15, 2015. Just when I thought there were no new sources of Hanis and Milluk language out there…new words and phrases are found! Troy Anderson scanned hundreds of pages of slip files from the Jacobs archives and within those pages are a handful of new nouns, and some new verbs. It is an incredible amount of new information. Here are a couple of new-to-me verbs: hlqan. To soak, ts’ilbin. You a...
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Just sharing some fun on language. October 17, 2016. If you look at the previous post about spooky stories, one of the links goes to a post about the scary Nuuskilii women, which are translated into English as ‘giant women’ or ‘pitch dress ogresses’. In Frachtenberg’s work with Jim … Continue reading →. The annual Halloween-inspired post of strange stories. October 13, 2016. Milhau’s Lower Umpqua wordlist, 1856. October 11, 2016. October 7, 2016.
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History | Shichils's Blog
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Since I mention various native informants fairly frequently I thought I’d provide a little bit of background information on who they were, and what linguists and other ethnographers they worked with over the years. James Buchanan was a Hanis Indian, born at Coos Bay in the village of. Some time between the years 1845 and 1848. In 1856, he and all Coos Bay Indians were moved to. Meaning worn out knife, knife worn small. In this same time period Leo Fra...
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Flight of the Condor | Shichils's Blog
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Fun with Hanis (and a little Milluk and Siuslaw too). Indian dogs →. Flight of the Condor. July 24, 2015. Are highly endangered today, rescued by captive breeding some 30 years ago and living in the wild in the southwest. Not so long ago they lived in the Pacific northwest. Now all that is left in Oregon is their smaller cousin, the turkey vulture aka buzzard. And the common vulure is. The word for condor appears similar to that given for the related language Alsea. Ya ts’is (. Is a nasalized vowel).
