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Salish Etymological Dictionary
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Language Name
General Salishan.
Alternate Language Names
The Salishan language family is often referred to as Salish.
Region
British Columbia, Canada; Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, United States.
Who
Aert H. Kuipers.
Others Involved
The Netherlands Organization for the Advancement of Pure Research (Funding); Anthony Mattina, and Timothy Montler (Editors).
Hank Nater (research on Bella Coola); Jan Van Eijk (research on Lillooet) Jan Timmers (research on Sechelt and Comox).
Publishing Information
Published 2002, by UMOP (University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics).
A first list of etymologies was published in 1970 as Towards a Salish etymological dictionary.
This dictionary draws on lexical information from 23 Salish languages to reconstruct what roots would have looked like in Proto-Salish.
How People are Cited
The authors of the wordlists and other publications included in this etymological dictionary are included in the Introduction. Individual speakers are not cited in this publication, but may be cited in the source material.
How Information is Cited
Information is cited in the Introduction.
Where is Information Coming from
Material for this dictionary was collected by the author starting in the late sixties. It draws from his own research on Squamish and Shuswap, as well as: Reicahrd 1939 for Coeur d'Alene, Vogt 1940 for Kalispel, Elmendorf-Shuttles 1960 for Halkomelem, and Snyder 1968 for Puget Sound Salish/Lushootseed.
The authors students' Nater, Timmers and Van Eijk then contributed wordlists of Bella Coola, Sechelt and Lillooet.
Sliammon (Comox) material from Hagège 1981 and Grenier and Bouchard 1971and Tillamook material from Boas' 1925 Comparative Salishan Vocabularies has been included.
Tools and Framework used
This dictionary is available as a physical book.
Access
This dictionary can be accessed through libraries.
Included Languages and Directionality
Proto-Salish - English.
The languages included are: Bella Coola, Commox-Sliammon, Pentlatch, Sechelt, Squamish, Halkomelem, Nooksack, Northern Straights, Clallam, Lushootseed, Twana, Quinault, Lower Chehalis, Upper Chehalis, Cowlitz, Tillamook, Lillooet, Thompson, Shuswap, Columbian, Colville-Okanagan, Kalispel-Spokane-Flathead, and Coeur d'Alene.
Dialects Included
No dialect is specified for this dictionary. Multiple dialects from some languages are included and are marked with an abbreviation in entires.
Type of Dictionary
This is a bilingual, mono-directional, etymological dictionary. The purpose of this dictionary is to reconstruct what Proto-Roots would have looked like in a historical Proto-Salish language.
How are Entries Organised
The entries in this dictionary are either Proto-Roots, or Proto-Suffixes, which can be found listed in alphabetical order with the addition of extra characters. Glottalized consonants are listed after their glottalized counterparts, followed by rounded consonants. Information on the order of entries can be found on page 13.
Entries consist of a reconstructed Proto-Root headword and an English translation, followed by words descending from that root in the various Salish languages.
The dictionary has multiple sections, including the Dictionary section, consisting of: Proto-Salish Roots, Proto-Coast-Salish Roots, and Proto-Interior Salish Roots. As well as the Lexical Suffixes sub-section.
Other Features
| Feature | Included | More Information |
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| Guide to use and understand | ✅ | |
| Audio | ❌ | |
| Images | ❌ | |
| Example phrases | ❌ | |
| Speakers marked | ❌ | |
| Dialects marked | ✅ | Dialects from some languages are marked in entries |
External Links
Reference on WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/52156745
A 2003 Book Review by M. Dale Kinkade can be found on JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/30028887