Borrowed words from Rumsien
From: | Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, November 22, 2000, 10:28 |
Here's a list of words borrowed into Montreiano from Rumsien.I had to
hazard a guess on a few. Most of these refer to things found in nature.
note: x - /S/, j - /h/, ch - /tS/. u before vowels = /w/. i before vowels
= /j/
charos - black abalone
aulón - red abalone
iucs - Quercus agrifolia - Coast Live Oak
siquíniucs - Quercus kelloggii - California Black Oak
copoiucs - Quercus lobata - Valley Oak
marx - Alnus oregona - Red Alder
pilche - sea anemone
chume - Populus trichocarpa - Black Cottonwood
uasin - winnowing basket
ores - grizzly bear
ruçin - a type of bee (probably a bumble bee)
culián - brewer's black bird
cancau - yellow headed black bird
axtín - Scrub Jay
pujut - a type of native bread
juche - chapparal, brush
chache - Aesculus californica - California Buckeye
rucxe, menxe - types of tule (water plants)
tequerxe - Mountain Lion
xurux - Adenostoma fasciculatum - Chamise
pusen - Ceanothus - California Lilac
acau - mussel, clam
machan - coyote
sumirque - Cupressus macrocarpa - Monterey Cypress
pucse -Tule Elk
ase - pelican
ches - jack rabbit
arxe - great blue heron
Les Chepils - local mountain range
umón - hummingbird
jache - Iris douglasiana - Douglas Iris
nis - poison oak
arclesque - Spanish Moss (a type of lichen found on Coast Live Oaks)
colos - Arbutus menziesii - Madrone
secte - gopher
maxque - a shell necklace
arque - oak
xusque - sea otter
ualualche - burrowing owl
túkun - great horned owl
ixe - Pinus radiata - Monterey Pine
konon - raft made of tule, reeds
ipe - rattlesnake
uraque - salmon (probably the steel-head)
suguaique - sandpiper
eieruque - sea lion
catache - purple sea urchin
sinalese - Pacific Giant Kelp
machumai - skunk
tisin - polecat
tiche - garter snake
chajichime - black widow spider
jexe - ground squirrel
iaran - starfish
tochón - Heteromeles arbutifolia - Toyon, California Holly
trutulun - turkey vulture
pinan - yellow jacket
potoruque - grown dwelling wasp
tomenxe - wolf
puchuche - wood-pecker