kumtux

[< Chinook Jargon; cf. Nootka kamitah'ks known, definite]

Pacific Coast

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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understand; know; believe.

1862

[Wake cumtux Sivash muckermuch cushon (Indians do not understand how to eat pork).]

1894

What keeps the old man? You halo comtax anything. . . .

1953

"You go put canoe to water and paddle up Bear River to landing . . . You kumtux?"

1963

"Me no savvy see-urn that fellow before--me hyu cumtux (guess) him Ankiti Siwash!"