Moose and Swampy Cree Dictionary

This is a Moose and Swampy Cree to English Dictionary, by C. Douglas Ellis, including the glossaries of the three Spoken Cree volumes and the Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay. The forms are given in Moose Cree. See the corresponding full forms dictionary here with both L and N dialects.

ôtê

IPC

this way, hither; 10:7; 39:3; 49:1; 60:7

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôšawâ-

VII

be level, be smooth

Spoken Cree [35]

šôšawâpawâcikê-

VAI

spill and have (something) spread; (14:6); cf. šôšawakohtin-

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôšawah-

VTI

level s.t., smoothe s.t.

Spoken Cree [35]

šôšawahw-

VTA

level s.o., smoothe s.o.

Spoken Cree [35]

šôšawakohtin-

VII

spread floating; 14:6; šôšawakohtin pimiy the fat spread over the top (of the water)

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôšawisi-

VAI

be level, be smooth

Spoken Cree [35]

šôškonâtahî-

VAI

slide

Spoken Cree [31]

šôškonâtahî-

VAI

slide down (the hill); (12:15); cf. papâmâtahî-, pîhtokwêyâtahî-, ...âtahî-

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôkâw-

NI

sugar

Spoken Cree [18]

šôkâw-

NI

[English loanword] sugar [sometimes NA]; 58:5; for variable gender cf. pêsin-, pikîw-

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôliyân-

NA

money Cf. “shilling”.

Spoken Cree [4]

šôliyân-

NA

money; 39:3; 41:9; 42:9

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôliyânâpiskoš-

NA

dime, nickel; coin v. masinahikanwâni-šôliyân-

Spoken Cree [46 ]

šôliyânâpiskošiš-

NI

coin

Spoken Cree [51]

šôliyânasinahikan-

NI

band ticket, ticket of band identity

Spoken Cree [41]

šôliyâni-têhamân-

NA

credit card v. plâstiko-têhamân-.

Spoken Cree [37]

šôliyânihkâkê-

VAI

make money (out of it), use it to make money; 41:11; cf. ...ihkâkê-

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôliyânikimâw-

NA

Indian Agent ‘paymaster’; 42:39

Cree Legends and Narratives

šôliyâniskâ-

VII

be abundant money: i.e., be Treaty Day

Spoken Cree [41]

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