Note 58 — Chapter IV

The words were really Waw-kash (a word of salutation) and Tyee. This is in most common use in Nootka Sound. The order of salutation to a man is Quaache-is, to a woman Chè-is, and at parting Klach-she. A married woman is Klootsnah; a young girl Hah-quatl-is; an unmarried woman (whether old or young) Hah-quatl—distinctions which Jewitt does not make in his brief vocabulary. The Indians have many words to express varieties of the same action. Thus pâttēs means to wash. But pâttēē is to wash all over; tsont-soomik, to wash the hands; tsocuks, to wash a pan, etc. Haouwith, or Hawilth, is the original word for chief, though Tyee is commonly used.