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Methow, n.
Brit. |ˈmɛthaʊ|, U.S. |ˈmɛtˌhaʊ|
Plural -s, unchanged
Forms: 18 Meatwhoes[plural], 18 Meatwhos[plural], 18 Metcowwes[plural], 18 Met'how, 18 Smeathhowe, 18– Methow
[‹ Okanagan mítxaw, the name of the valley formerly inhabited by the Methows.
The form Smeathhowe (attested 1811) contains the Salishan nominalizing prefix s-.]
1. A member of a North American Indian people formerly inhabiting the Methow Valley in north central Washington state and a small area on the other side of the Okanogan River just south of Mallott, and now one of the Colville Confederated Tribes, mainly living on the Colville Reservation in the same area.
1805–6in G. E. Moulton Atlas Lewis & Clark Expedition (1983) No. 77 (on map) Met-cow-wes N[ation]. 1806Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1991) VII. 163 We arrived at a village of 5 lodges of the Met-cow-wes. 1849R. Cox Adventures on Columbia River 290 These tribes may be classed as follows... Meat-whos. 1874F. A. Walker Indians N. Amer. 254 The tribes for whom this reservation is designed are known as Colvilles, Okinakanes, San Poels, Lake Spokanes, Cœur d'Alênes, Calispells, and Methows. 1907F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 850 Methow... A Salishan tribe. 1952J. Swanton Indian Tribes N. Amer. 428 The Methow spoke a dialect belonging to the interior division of the Salishan linguistic stock. 1998Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XII. 253/2 Some Methows insist that their language was once much more distinct from either chain.
2. The Interior Salishan language of the Methows, a dialect of Okanagan. Now hist.
1967M. O'Brien (unpublished conference paper) (title) A phonology of Methow. 1976L. C. Thompson in T. A. Sebeok Native Langs. Americas I. 385 Kinkade..has also straightened out for us the question of the placement of Methow speech..which emerges as a divergent dialect of the Okanagan-Colville complex. 1996I. Goddard in Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XVII. 6/1 Okanagan (Northern Okanagan, Lakes, Colville, Sanpoil-Nespelem, Southern Okanagan, and Methow). 1998Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XII. 253/2 Methow occupied an intermediate status between..two [dialect] chains [sc. Columbian and Okanagan], but historically was becoming more like those upriver [sc. Okanagan]. |