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Tillamook, n. and a.|ˈtɪləmuːk|
Also 9 Killamook, Killamuck, Killemook, Tilamook.
[ad. Chinook tˀilimaks people of Nehelim; the final -s was taken in Eng. as the plural ending. In sense 2 of the adj., directly f. the name of Tillamook County, N.W. Oregon.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) a Salishan people formerly inhabiting coastal areas of N.W. Oregon.
b. The Salish language of this people.
1806M. Lewis Jrnl. 25 Jan. in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Expedition (1904) IV. 12, I have lately learned that the natives whome I have heretofore named as distinct nations, living on the sea coast S.E. of the Killamucks, are only bands of that numerous nation. 1838S. Parker Jrnl. Exploring Tour beyond Rocky Mts. 259 Near the mouth of the Columbia, along the coast, are the Killamooks who are numerous, but their numbers are not known. 1910F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians II. 750/2 Tillamook,..a large and prominent Salish tribe on Tillamook bay and the rivers flowing into it, in N.W. Oregon. 1927Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics IV. 120 Tillamook is referred to as an ‘Interior dialect’ of Salishan. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 122 The question as to whether Tillamook is a dead or living language has not as yet been satisfactorily answered, although for all practical purposes it is dead in Oregon at the present time. 1979L. C. Thompson in Campbell & Mithun Languages Native Amer. 704 The Northern Interior languages were then between two areas where *a was being fronted and raised. A similar change can be inferred for Tillamook, for which Boas' own recordings show almost invariably [a]; but..in the 1960s, the last known speakers of the language used almost exclusively [æ, ɛ] in the pertinent positions.
B. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to the Tillamook.
1844Lee & Frost Ten Yrs. in Oregon App. 339 (heading) A specimen of Indian dialects: Killemook dialect. 1893J. C. Pilling Bibliogr. Salishan Languages 6/1 Five stories in the Tilamook language.
2. A proprietary name for a crumbly variety of cheddar cheese with a sharp taste, made in Tillamook. Also absol.
1918Morning Oregonian (Portland) 2 Nov. 11 (Advt.), Serve a Tillamook cheese dish for dinner—save meat!.. Tillamook is America's prize full cream cheese, made in this famous little valley between the Coast range and the sea. 1921Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 7 June 194/2 Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, Oreg. Filed July 31, 1920... Tillamook... Claims use since the middle of April, 1918. 1933D. Collins Cheddar Box I. xviii. 215 In 1911—that was two years after the co-operatives established their inspection system with Fred Christensen in charge—most of the Tillamook cheese was rolling in over the mountains to Portland in box cars, instead of taking a sea voyage to get to market. 1955B. Brown Compl. Bk. Cheese iv. 43 It takes two pocket-sized, but thick, yellow volumes to record the story of Oregon's great Tillamook. 1975Business Week 14 Apr. 14c San Francisco bureau manager Jack Wilson was raised in Oregon and still has a taste for Tillamook cheese. |