The following is a listing of placenames from the Chinook Jargon, generally from the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, the Canadian Yukon Territory and the American states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Some outliers exist in California, Utah, Nevada, the Canadian Prairies and the Great Plains States, and as far east as Michigan, Ontario, Quebec and New Hampshire; those in the Prairies/Plains and Ontario/Quebec may be assumed to have been "carried" there in the era by fur traders.
Note: multiples entries of the same name are sorted in alphabetical order by state or province.
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ChinookJargon (Chinuk Wawa or Chinook Wawa, also known simply as Chinook or Jargon) is a language originating as a pidgin trade language in the Pacific...
ChinookJargon word that has historical use in the Pacific Northwest. It has a range of meanings, commonly associated with an English translation of strong...
in Canada List of ChinookJargonplacenames Saltstraumen Mount Richardson Provincial Park "Skookumchuck Narrows". Geographical Names Data Base. Natural...
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of Shasta Village of Little Shasta Mount Shasta Shasta Dam Shasta Lake Shasta River Siskiyou County – disputed origin; likely from a ChinookJargon phrase...
means "water". List of Washington rivers ListofChinookJargon placenames U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Skookumchuck River...
"Pidgin". The term jargon has also been used to refer to pidgins, and is found in the namesof some pidgins, such as ChinookJargon. In this context, linguists...
south of the community of Cedarvale. "Klootchman" is the ChinookJargon word for "woman" or "female" (i.e. as an adjective). ListofChinookJargon placenames...
Midwest region of the United States. The ChinookJargon, the old trade language of the Pacific Northwest, uses siwash (an adaptation of the French sauvage)...
chichiatl, "fermented water." Chinook (definition) from Lower Chehalis tsʼinúk, the nameof a village, via Chinook Trade Jargon. Chuckwalla (definition) from...
the east. The mountain's name "Kaleetan" derives from ChinookJargon which means "arrow". The peak was named by members of The Mountaineers and the toponym...
Lake were officially named Bridge Creek. Listof rivers of British Columbia Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field ListofChinookJargon placenames Canim Beach...
encountered the Chinook Tribe on the lower Columbia. The term "Chinook" also has a wider meaning in reference to the ChinookJargon, which is based on...
the ChinookJargon, was applied here in its sense of "big" (i.e. the bigger or biggest one). Listof mountains in Canada ListofChinookJargon placenames...
4 km (2.5 mi). The mountain was named by the first ascent party, and "ipsoot" means "hidden", or "to hide" in ChinookJargon, as this peak is indeed hidden...
places throughout the United States take their names from the languages of the indigenous Native American/American Indian tribes. The following list includes...
pronunciation of the ChinookJargon word oolighan (see eulachon), referring to grease made from fish, a highly prized food source for Native Americans of the region...
predominant variety ofChinookJargon spoken, and as such a single ChinookJargon word might be borrowed from speakers of different ChinookJargon dialects with...
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