‘gun’, ‘bow for big game’,
easy way to type it: gugwiil
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Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough
Milluk
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Americanist Phonetic
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IPA
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[ kubí·l ],
then
[ gugwí·l ]
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[ kubí·l ],
then
[ ɡuɡwí·l ]
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Instant Phonetic Englishization: Like koo_beel, for Lolly’s uniquely Coos Bay
Milluk version of the word. Lolly’s
more shared version of the word is more like goo_gweel, while Annie’s version
of the word has dotted, back Gs which are made farther back in the throat.
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The K [ k ] at the beginning of Lolly’s
first time saying this word is not decidedly aspirated, so it would not seem to
count as / k / in phonemic terms.
Word-initial voiceless stop consonants in Milluk are generally decidedly
aspirated. Another Milluk word that has
an evident sound correspondence involving b-gw is the Milluk word meaning
‘cradle’ which Lolly says in the interview segment "Cradle" on this website. There too, we find ourselves
dealing at the margins with [ k ], where otherwise there is [ g ] and also a
sound correspondence with [ b ].
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for AMP:
g.ug.wiil
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Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk
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Exactly Jacobs’ transcription
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Americanist Phonetic & IPA
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g̣ug̣wí·l Modernized:
ɢ̣uɢ̣wí·l
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[ ɢ̣uɢ̣wí·l ]
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[ ɢuˈɢwiˑl ]
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