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What to make of apparent Verb+X compounds?

Summary by Chinook Jargon
My ongoing work on Louis-Napoléon St Onge’s manuscript dictionary of the Central Dialect, undated but maybe from the 1890s and using earlier data, has me trying to analyze instances of the Verb kuli (‘run’) being used in adjectival-looking ways. …when we don’t have independent evidence for the initial Verb functioning in the language as a Noun or Adjective. Image credit: UNICEF kúri-tsə̍qw ‘a falls, rapids’ (as the 2012 Grand Ronde Tribes dic…
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Chinook Jargon broke the news in on Friday, December 5, 2025.
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