The Body
Emeets - the nose
Kiyah, kaiyah - entrails, innards
Kwolen, Kwolann - the ear
NB Halo kwolen, ikpooie kwolen - deaf Mamook
kwolen - to listen.
Hand - hand
Itlwillie, Itlwill - flesh, muscle. Lajam
itlwillie, teawhit itlwillie - leg muscle
Laboos, lapush - the mouth
Lahm, lam - the arm
NB difference from laham, lahahm - oar.
Lalang - the tongue
Also used to mean "language", though not in reference
to the jargon, for which Chinook wawa was used.
Ladoo, ledoo, ledwah - finger
Lajam - the leg
Lemah, lamah - the hand
Kloshe lemah or kloshe hand - the right
hand ("the good hand"). Mamook hand, mamook lemah - shake
hands.
Lepee, lapieh - the foot
Lapel - skin
Not usually used for humans, I think.
Letah - teeth, or
tooth, from Fr. le dent and/or les dents.
Latate, Latet - the
head, also the top of something
Memaloose, mimloose - dead
Nose - the nose
Boat nose - prow of a boat
Opoots - the behind, buttocks
Pil-pil - blood. Mamook pil-pil
-
to bleed.
Seeahhost - the face, the eyes
Halo seeahhost - blind. Ikt seeahhost
- one-eyed. Lakit seeahhost - four-eyes (someone who wears
spectacles, of course, but not derisively). Dolla seeahhost
- spectacles (from their shape and size).
Skin - skin
Stone - bone, testicles
Tatoosh - chest, breasts, also means "milk"
and "butter"
Teahwhit - the leg, the foot
The accent is on the second syllable.
Tumtum - the heart, will, mind; also to
feel, to know, to intend, to think,etc.
Tupso, tuhso - hair
Also means "grass". Gibbs says the use of this
word for "hair" is mistaken and incorrect, but it became part of the jargon
after the publication of the commercial lexicons and the popularization
of the jargon among non-natives so has been included here.
Yakso - hair
Yakwahtin, Kwahtin - the belly, the entrails
Wind - breath, breathing, exhalations
Tenas wind, tumtum wind - sigh; tenas wind also means "breeze"
Halo wind - out of breath, dead
The following is something of an expansion of the previous section,
which was "pure" Chinook. For the English-Chinook section here as
elsewhere I've made my own stabs at coming up with viable expressions,
which will be given in light purple.
I've also taken liberties with various English words not found in the historical
sources, as this website is intended by use for speakers of modern English,
familiar with modern usages and standards.
Alive - iskum wind
Anus- tlhwop kopa
opoots, opoots thlwop
Arm - Lahm
Backside - opoots
Belly - Yakhwatin, Kwahtin
Bellybutton - lebouto
kopa yakhwatin
Blood - pil-pil
Brain - tumtum, tumtum itlwillie, kumtux
itlwillie
Bone - stone
Breath - wind, iskum wind, mamook wind
Breast - tatoosh
Butt, buttocks -
opoots
Chest - tatoosh
Dead - memaloose, mimloose
Ear - kwolen, kwolann
Entrails - kiyah, kaiyah
Eye(s) - seahhost (would be accompanied
by hand gesture to distinguish from face)
Face - seahhost (would be accompanied by
hand gesture to distinguish from eye/s)
Finger - ledoo, ledwah
Flesh - itlwillie, itlwill
Foot - lapee, lapieh, teawhit (teawhit
also means leg; a hand gesture would be used for clarity)
Hair - yakso, also tupso, tupso kopa latet
Hand - lemah
Head - latet
Heart - tumtum, tumtum itlwillie
Innards - kiyah, kaiyah
Leg - lajam, teawhit (teawhit also means
foot;
a hand gestured would be used for clarity)
Meat - itlwillie
Neck - le cou, lecoo, from Fr. le cou.
Nose - nose, emeets
Penis - wootlat
Posterior - opoots
Skin - skin, lapel (lapel more for animal
skins, I think)
Sick - sick, sick tumtum
Testicles - stone
Tongue - lalang, lalang itlwillie
Torso - yakhwatin, khwatin
Vagina -
Well - kloshe, tumtum kloshe, mamook kloshe
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