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Some broad ideas about “wapsina”

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In a Chinook Jargon invitation, we once saw a mysterious word “wapsina“… It seemed to mean ‘(young) woman’. Image credit: Alamy I couldn’t come up with an etymology at the time, six years ago. Now I’ve spotted a word in the Indigenous language local to that ad, Umatilla Sahaptin: wápšaš ‘hair braid’. That’s fairly similar in sound to “wapsina”. I see that there’s a Dual number suffix -ina in Umatilla; could that help account for the ending of …
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