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Boas 1892: Many discoveries in a short article (Part 25: ‘to mend’)

Summary by Chinook Jargon
There’s plenty more of value to examine in Prof. Franz Boas’s quite brief 1892 article on “The Chinook Jargon“… “Ojibwa man mending canoe by lake with teepees in 1913” (image credit: Wikimedia Commons) We’re lucky a collection of Chinuk Wawa words got documented by someone as knowledgeable and reliable as Boas was. (Click here for the previous installments in this series.) Here he tells of a Causative-inflected verb that had previously been docu…
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Chinook Jargon broke the news in on Saturday, July 12, 2025.
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