Setting aside interjections, common in a more or less modified form to several adjoining tribes, twenty-one words of those given in this vocabulary present noticeable analogies between the Chinook and other native languages. They are as follows: _English._ _Chinook._ _Hailtzuk and Belbella._ salmon berries, klalilli, olalli. _English._ _Chinook and Clatsop._ _Nootka._ Jewitt and Cook. water, tl'tsuk : tl'chukw, chauk : chahak. _English._ _Chinook._ _Cowlitz._ _Kwantlen._ _Selish._ six, takhum, tukh'um, tuckhum', tackan. _English._ _Chinook._ _Chihalis._ _Nisqually._ deep, kellippe, kluputl, klep glad, kwan, kwal (_tame_) proud, eyutl, juil. demon, ichiatku, tsiatko, tsiatko. black bear, eitchhut, chetwut. crow, skaka, skaka. oyster, klokhklokh, chetlokh, klokhklokh. game of "hands," itlokum, setlokum. _English._ _Chinook._ _Yakama and Klikatat._ certainly, nawitka, n'witka. always, kwanisum, kwalisim. younger sister, ats, atse. road, wehut, wiet (_far_). barrel, tamtulitsh, tamolitsh. buffalo, emusmus, musmus. coyote, italipus, talipa (_gray fox_). mouse, kholkhol, khoilkhoil. bread, tsapelil, saplil. needle, okwepowa, kapus (_a pin_).
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