I see one of my favorite college professors documented the farthest southern reach of any Chinook Jargon word! Map from Wikipedia Harvey Pitkin’s 1985 “Wintu Dictionary” (Berkeley: University of California Press) contains on page 362 this entry: mu•smus cow, cattle, elk, moose ? (perhaps from Modoc from Chinook Jargon; cf. English ‘moose’ (Trinity County dialect) A slightly earlier reference, Alice Schlichter’s 1981 “Wintu Dictionary” (Departmen…
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