Grey Haired

This word occurs just once in the Milluk texts.  We assume that Jacobs actually heard the vowel in the second syllable of this word as a vowel that was just about as long as the vowel in the first syllable.  He systematically did not write vowel length for word-final vowels in Milluk words in open syllables.  We have to suspect that his not writing the vowel in the second syllable of this word as a long vowel is an extenstion of that habit in doing his transcriptions.  Notice that in Jacobs’ transcription the vowel in the second syllable of this word is written as a stressed vowel.  In some languages, including English, stressed vowels tend to be longer as well as louder than they would be if unstressed.