Mrs. Peterson seems not to have said this word
at any time in her work with Melville Jacobs, although in the Milluk texts
there are a number of examples of a verb | tsx̣á· | ‘split (something)’. If the word | tsx̣á· | is a version of the
word that we hear in this interview segment from Mrs. Metcalf, it would not be
the only case where Lolly’s version of a Milluk word has [ k ] where Annie’s
version of a Milluk word has [ x̣ ]. See
the Milluk word that means ‘deer’, and the Milluk word that means ‘snake’. |