DCHP-2
kumtux cumtux, kumtuks [< Chinook Jargon; cf. Nootka kamitah'ks known, definite] Pacific Coast DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
THIS ENTRY MAY CONTAIN OUTDATED INFORMATION, TERMS and EXAMPLES
v.
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!"
- 1862 [Wake cumtux Sivash muckermuch cushon (Indians do not understand how to eat pork).]