III A List of Words
In the Nootkian Language, the most in use.146
| Check-up, | Man. |
| Kloots-mah, | Woman. |
| Noowexa, | Father. |
| Hooma-hexa, | Mother. |
| Tanassis, | Child. |
| Katlahtik, | Brother. |
| Kloot-chem-up, | Sister. |
| Tanassis-check-up, | Son. |
| Tanassis-kloots-mah, | Daughter. |
| Tau-hat-se-tee, | Head. |
| Kassee, | Eye. |
| Hap-se-up, | Hair. |
| Neetsa, | Nose. |
| Parpee, | Ears. |
| Chee-chee, | Teeth. |
| Choop, | Tongue. |
| Kook-a-nik-sa, | Hands. |
| Klish-klin, | Feet. |
| Oop-helth, | Sun or Moon. |
| Tar-toose, | Stars. |
| Sie-yah, | Sky. |
| Toop-elth, | Sea. |
| Cha-hak, | Fresh water. |
| Meet-la, | Rain. |
| Queece, | Snow. |
| Noot-chee, | Mountain or hill. |
| Kla-tur-miss, | Earth. |
| Een-nuk-see, | Fire or fuel. |
| Mook-see, | Rock. |
| Muk-ka-tee, | House. |
| Wik, | No. |
| He-ho, | Yes. |
| Kak-koelth, | Slave. |
| Mah-hack, | Whale. |
| Klack-e-miss, | Oil. |
| Quart-lak, | Sea-otter. |
| Coo-coo-ho-sa, | Seal. |
| Moo-watch, | Bear. |
| So-har, | Salmon. |
| Toosch-qua, | Cod. |
| Pow-ee, | Halibut. |
| Kloos-a-mit, | Herring. |
| Chap-atz, | Canoe. |
| Oo-wha-pa, | Paddle. |
| Chee-me-na, | Fish-hook. |
| Chee-men, | Fish-hooks. |
| Sick-a-minny, | Iron. |
| Toophelth, | Cloth. |
| Cham-mass, | Fruit. |
| Cham-mas-sish, | Sweet or pleasant to the taste. |
| Moot-sus, | Powder. |
| Chee-pokes, | Copper. |
| Hah-welks, | Hungry. |
| Nee-sim-mer-hise, | Enough. |
| Chat-ta-yek, | Knife or dagger. |
| Klick-er-yek, | Rings. |
| Quish-ar, | Smoke. |
| Mar-met-ta, | Goose or duck. |
| Pook-shit-tle, | To blow. |
| Een-a-qui-shit-tle, | To kindle a fire. |
| Ar-teese, | To bathe. |
| Ma-mook-su-mah, | To go to fish. |
| Smootish-check-up, | Warrior. |
| Cha-alt-see klat-tur wah, | Go off, or go away. |
| Ma-kook, | To sell. |
| Kah-ah-pah-chilt, | Give me something. |
| Oo-nah, | How many. |
| Iy ah-ish, | Much. |
| Ko-mme-tak, | I understand. |
| I-yee ma hak, | I do not understand. |
| Em-ma-chap, | To play. |
| Kle-whar, | To laugh. |
| Mac-kam-mah-sish, | Do you want to buy. |
| Kah-ah-coh, | Bring it. |
| Sah-wauk, | One. |
| Att-la, | Two. |
| Kat-sa, | Three. |
| Mooh, | Four. |
| Soo-chah, | Five. |
| Noo-poo, | Six. |
| At-tle-poo, | Seven. |
| At-lah-quelth, | Eight. |
| Saw-wauk-quelth, | Nine. |
| Hy-o, | Ten. |
| Sak-aitz, | Twenty. |
| Soo-jewk, | One hundred. |
| Hy-e-oak, | One thousand. |
Footnotes
146 Most of the words in this vocabulary are given with reasonable correctness, though the transliteration is somewhat primitive. A fuller and more accurate one may be found in the Appendix to Sproat’s Scenes and Studies of Savage Life (1868), pp. 295-309, so that it is not necessary to annotate the present one. Those in Cook’s Voyage and in Dawson and Tolmie’s Comparative Vocabularies of the Indian Tribes of British Columbia (1884), are short and imperfect. I have a much fuller one in manuscript.