is-sick stick

Chinook Jargon

Etymology

Claimed to literally mean "paddlewood." Second element from stick (“stick, wood, tree, forest”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

is-sick stick

  1. alder (tree and wood)

References

  • Gill, John K. (1909), “is-sick stick”, in Gill's Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon (overall work in English), The J. K. Gill Company, page 11
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