Chinook Jargon's skákʰwəl 'lamprey eel' is a weird-looking word, for having come from Chinookan languages. That's the best known information, as the very fine 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dictionary of Chinuk Wawa reports. In tribal languages, the word appears to be known only in Shoalwater-Clatsop Lower Chinookan and in Clackamas Chinookan. In those language, the weirdness…
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