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Your Chinook Wawa Word of the Day: Lemooto
LEMOOTO
[le-MOO’-to] or [lam’-MU-to] โ noun.
Meaning: Sheep; mutton.
Origin: French, les moutons, โsheepโ
Sometimes spelled as lemoto or limoto, it refers to sheep, and naturally all things related to them, such as โman lemootoโ (ram), “klootchman lemooto” (ewe), โtenas lemootoโ (lamb), and “lemooto house” (fold, sheepfold). The word was also used for โmuttonโ, though if one wanted to specify, they could say โlemooto itlwillieโ or โlemooto yaka itlwillie”.
The English word โsheepโ was also used from time to time, such as in โhiyu sheepโ (flock), โsheep yaka tupso lemooto yaksoโ (wool), and the heavily English โsheep yaka meatโ (mutton)