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Si-ah, adj. Nootka, Saia. Far ; far off. Comparative distance is 

 expressed by intonation or repetition ; as, siah-siah, very far ; wake 

 siah, near, not far. Jewitt gives Sieyah as the sky in Nootka, 

 which was perhaps the true meaning, or, more probably, they 

 called the sky " the afar." 



Si-am, n. Chinook, Ishaiem. The grizzly hear. 



Sick, adj. English, idem. Sick, Cole sick, the ague; sick tum- 

 tmn, grieved ; sorry ; jealous ; unhappy, 



Sikhs, or Shikhs, n. Chinook, Skasiks'; Sahaptin, Shikstua. 

 (Pandosy.) A friend. Used only towards men. 



Sin'-a-moxt, adj. Chinook, Sinimakst. Seven, 



Si'-pah, adf Willamette dialect of the Kalapuya. (\Y. C. John- 

 son.) Tsai'-pa. Straight, like a ramrod. Of only local use. 



Sis'-ki-you, n. Cree. (Anderson.) A bob-tailed horse. 



This name, ludicrously enough, has been bestowed on the range 

 of mountains separating Oregon and California, and also on a 

 county in the latter State. The origin of this designation, as re- 

 lated to me by Mr. Anderson, was as follows. Mr. Archibald R. 

 McLeod, a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company, in the year 

 1828, while crossing the mountains with a pack train, was over- 

 taken by a snow storm, in which he lost. most of his animals, in- 

 cluding a noted bob-tailed race-horse. His Canadian followers, in 

 compliment to their chief, or " bourgeois," named the place the 

 Pass of the Siskiyou, — an appellation subsequently adopted as the 

 veritable Indian name of the locality, and which thence extended 

 to the whole range, and the adjoining district. 



Sit'-kum, n., adj. Chinook, Sitkum (Anderson) ; Clatsop, Asitko. 

 A. lialf ; apart. Sitkum dolla, Aa^ a dollar; sitkum sun, noon; 

 tenas sitkum, a quarter, or a small part. 



Sit'-lay, or Sit'-li-ay, n. French, Les etriers. (Anderson.) 

 Stirrups. 



Sit'-shum, V, Chihalis, idem. To swim. 



Si'-wash, n., adj. French, Sauvage. An Indian; Indian. 



Skin, n. English, idem. Skin. Skin shoes, moccasins ; stick skin, 

 the bark of a tree. 



Skoo'-kum, or Skoo-koom', n., adj. Chihalis, Skukum. A 

 ghost; an evil spirit or demon; strong. Skookum tumtum, brave ; 

 skookum chuck, a rapid. 



Skwak'-wal, n. Chinook, Skakulh (Anderson) ; Clatsop, Ska- 

 KOLi. A lamprey eel. Of local use only. 



Skwis'-kwis, n. Chinook, Cathlamet dialect. A squirnl. 



