‘swim’,

easy way to type it:    mil’milii

Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ mɪlʔmɪli ],

 then

[ mɪlʔmɪli ]

[ mɪlʔmɪli ],

 then

[ mɪlʔmɪli ]





Instant Phonetic Englishization:  mil’_mill_ee. 

From Mrs. Peterson, there is:  mɩʔlɛ́hɛ  ‘swimmer’, in Jacobs’ handwriting in his slip-file dictionary.  We assume this to be phonetically [ mɩʔlǽhæ ], but we also assume that when Mrs. Peterson pronounced this word meaning ‘swimmer’, the glottal stop was not so much before the L [ l ] as it was simultaneous with the L.  A simultaneous pronunciation, rather than [ lʔ ] is what we actually hear in Lolly’s pronunciation of the evidently reduplicated form of the verb meaning ‘swim’.