clattawa
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Chinook Jargon tlatoa (“to go”), from Nootka ƛatw̕a (“to paddle away”).
Verb[edit]
clattawa (third-person singular simple present clattawas, present participle clattawa-ing, simple past and past participle clattawa-ed)
- (obsolete, rare, west coast North America: British Columbia to Oregon) To go; depart, leave. [mid- to late 19th c.]
- 1864, Edwin Mosely, “A Survivor's Account”, in the Daily Chronicle[1]:
- The Chilcootens told him that he had better clattawa and gave him a knife, to defend himself in case he came across any white men.
- 1864, “Origin of the Massacre”, in the Daily Chronicle[2]:
- Tenas George’s Statement[...]The Indian who shot him had a scar on one cheek. A young Chilcoaten, who had been a slave, (Chraychanuru, also called Bob, one of the six) told him then to klatawaw [go] as quickly as possible, and gave him a knife to defend himself.
- 1887, John Harrison Mills, chapter 10, in Chronicles of the Twenty-first Regiment New York State Volunteers[3], page 204:
- The midday echoes reply drowsily, the solitary horseman curses and “clattawa’s” up the road as though suddenly impressed with the idea that somebody is hooking his dinner over the hill[...]
- 1899, Emily Inez Denny, Blazing the Way: Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound and Other Pioneers[4], page 414:
- [T]hey were attacked by their northern enemies, who shot two or three while the rest klatawaw-ed with all the hyak (hurry) possible and hid themselves.
- 1909, Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, Volume 3469[5]:
- […] said we had better clattawa — get out. Some of them talked very fair English ; they asked for a small portion of Hour and a little yeast powder, calling it "yeast powder." They were superior-looking Indians and rodo good ponies […]
- a. 1968, BC Studies, University of British Columbia Press:
- On May 12 the disease was “creating fearful ravages among all the northern tribes,” but the Songhees were on Discovery and had no cases. May 15: “The Indian huts at Esquimalt have been destroyed with fire by the Police, and the occupants directed to clattawa.”