‘laugh’,

easy way to type it:    gatchak

Lolly Metcalf’s South Slough Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ gatčat ],

 then

[ gatčat ],

 then

[ gatčat ]

[ ɡɑtʃɑt ],

 then

[ ɡɑtʃɑt ],

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[ ɡɑtʃɑt ]



Instant Phonetic Englishization:  gaht_chahk. 

Mrs. Peterson did not say any Milluk word in her work with Melville Jacobs which is quite like this word, but in the Milluk texts she said seven other Milluk words or expressions which are relevant to the meaning ‘laugh’.