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Example 74-165
típsu
típsu
hair/feather
feather
Comment:
Típsu
was increasingly used for 'hair' in post-1850 works on Chinuk Wawa. The original source for this example is Hale (1890: 51).
Type:
narrative
Source:
Zenk and Johnson 2003
: 54
Language:
Chinuk Wawa
by
Anthony P. Grant
cite
Datapoints:
'Body hair' and 'feather': Overlap
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