Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon

by George Gibbs

~Stock'-en~, n. English. Stockings or socks.

~Stoh~, adj. Chinook, idem. Loose. Mamook stoh, to untie; unloose; undo. Metaphorically, to absolve.

~Stone~, n. English, idem. A rock or stone; bone; horn; the testicles.
Stone kiuatan, a stallion; mahsh stone, to castrate.

~Stote'-kin~, adj. Chinook, STOKTKIN. Eight.

~Stutch'-un~, n. English, STURGEON. The sturgeon.

~Suk-wal'-al~, n. Chinook (Hale); Clatsop, SHUKWALÁLA, a gun or musket. No longer used in Jargon.

~Sun~, n. English, idem. The sun; a day. Tenas sun, early; sitkum sun, noon; klip sun, sunset.

~Sun'-day~, n. English, idem. Sunday. Icht Sunday, a week; hyas sunday, a holiday. A flag hoisted on a particular occasion is sometimes also called Sunday. The other days of the week are usually counted from this; as, icht, mokst, klone sun kopet Sunday, one, two, or three days after Sunday. Saturday used to be called at the Hudson's Bay Company's posts "muckamuck sun," food day, as the one on which the rations were issued.

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~Tagh'-um~, ~To'-hum~, or ~Tugh'-um~, adj. Chinook, TAKHUM; Cowlitz,
TUKHUM; Kwantlen, TUKHUM'; Selish, TÁKKAN. Six.