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]
