Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon - LightNovelsOnl.com
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~La-poo-shet'~, _n._ French, LA FOURCHETTE. _A fork._
~La-pote~, _n._ French, LA PORTE. _A door._
~La-sanjel~, _n._ French, LA CINGLE. _A girth; a sash; a belt._
~La-see~, _n._ French, LA SCIE. _A saw._
~La-sell'~, _n._ French, LA SELLE. _A saddle._
~La-shal-loo~, or ~La-shal-lee~, _n._ French, LA CHARRUE. _A plough._
~La-shan-del~, _n._ French, LA CHANDELLE. _A candle._
~La-shase~, _n._ French, LA CHAISE. _A chair._
~La-shen'~, _n_ French, LA CHAINE. _A chain._
~Las-siet'~, _n._ French, L'a.s.sIETTE. _A plate._
~La-sway~, _n., adj._ French, LA SOIE. _Silk; silken._
~La-tahb~, _n._ French, LA TABLE. _A table._
~La-tet'~, _n._ French, LA TeTE. _The head._ Pil latet, _red-headed._
~La-tlah'~, _n._ French, TRAIN; as, "ne faites pas de train." (Anderson).
_A noise._ Mamook latlah, _to make a noise._
~La-wen'~, _n._ French, L'AVOINE. _Oats._
~La-west'~, _n._ French, LA VESTE. _A waistcoat._
~Lazy~, _adj._ English, idem. _Lazy._
~Le-bah-do~ (often p.r.o.nounced lab'-a-do), _n._ French, LE BARDEAU. _A s.h.i.+ngle._
~Le-bal'~, _n._ French, idem. _A ball; bullet._ Tenas lebal, _shot._
~Le-bis'-kwie~, _n._ French, LE BISCUIT. _Biscuit; crackers; hard bread._
~Le-blau'~, _n., adj._ French, LE BLOND. _A sorrel horse; chestnut colored._
~Le-clem'~, _n., adj._ French, LE CReME. _Cream-colored; a cream-colored or light dun horse._
~Le-c.o.c.k'~, _n._ French, LE COQ. _A c.o.c.k; a fowl._
~Le-doo'~, _n._ French, LE DOIGT. _A finger._
~Le-gley~, _n., adj._ French, LE GRIS, or English GRAY, with French article. _A gray horse; gray._
~Le-jaub'~. See DIAUB.
~Le-kleh~, _n._ French, LE CLEF. _A key._ Mamook le kleh, _lock the door._
~Le-kloo'~, _n._ French, LE CLOU. _A nail; nails._
~Le-koo'~, _n._ French, LE COU. _The neck._
~Le-ky'e~, _n., adj._ Mr. Anderson derives this from a Canadian word _caille,_ meaning _a piebald horse._ In its jargon use, it means, also, _a spot, spotted,_ or _speckled;_ as, lekye salmon, _the spotted or winter salmon_ (_salmo canis,_ Suckley).
~Le-lo'-ba~, _n._ French, LE RUBAN. _A ribbon._
~Le-loo'~, _n._ French, LE LOUP. _A wolf_ (the large wolf).
~Le-mah~, or ~Leh-ma~, _n._ French, LA MAIN. _The hand; the arm._ Kloshe lemah, _the right_ (literally, _the good hand_); potlatch lemah, _shake hands._
~Le-mah-to~, _n._ French, LE MARTEAU. _A hammer._
~Le-mel'~, _n._ French, LE MULET. _A mule._
~Le-mo'-lo~, _n., adj._ French Canadian, LE MORON; undoubtedly a corruption of MARRON, _a runaway negro._ _Wild; untamed._ It applies to men as well as animals, as, for instance, to the tribes which have had no intercourse with the settlements.
~Le-moo'-to~, or ~Lam'-mu-to~, _n._ French, LES MOUTONS. _Sheep._
~Le-pan'~, _n._ French, LE PAIN. _Bread; raised or light bread._
~Le-pee'~, _n._ French, LE PIED. _The feet._
~Le-pish'-e-mo~, _n._ Quaere u. d. _The saddle-blanket and housings of a horse._
~Le-plet~, _n._ French, LE PReTRE. _A priest._
~Le-pwau'~, _n._ French, LES POIS. _Peas._
~Le-sak'~, _n._ French, LE SAC. _A bag; a pocket._
~Le-sap'~, or ~Le-zep'~, _n._ French, LES OEUFS. _An egg; eggs._
~Le-see-blo~, _n._ French, LES ePERONS. _Spurs._
~Le-see-zo~, _n._ French, LE CISEAU. _Scissors._
~Le-sook~, _n._ French, LE SUCRE. _Sugar._
~Le-tah~, _n._ French, LE DENT. _The teeth._
~Le-whet'~, _n._ French, LE FOUET. _A whip._ Mamook lewhet, _to whip._
~Lice~, _n._ English. _Rice._
