‘Tobacco’,

easy way to type it:    dahai

Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ dáhai ],

 then

[ dáhai ]

[ ˈdɑhɑi ],

 then

[ ˈdɑhɑi ]





Instant Phonetic Englishization:  dah_hai, ends just like the English word ‘high’. 



for AMP:   

     dahai

Annie Miner Peterson’s Milluk

Exactly Jacobs’ transcription

Americanist Phonetic & IPA

dáhaⁱ,

 but also:

dáhai  

[ dáhai ]   

         &

[ ˈdɑhɑi ]


Shortened Diphthong:  There is the pronunciation [ dáhaⁱ ], with the short diphthong, the two times that the word occurs in the Milluk texts, but there is the pronunciation [ dáhai ], in Jacobs’ slip-file dictionary.  On one file slip, he spells it ending with the lower case letter i, as [ dáhai ], and on another file sip he spells it with an Iota, as [ dáhaɩ ], but on those file slips in his handwriting, there is no indication of a shortened diphthong.