Grey Haired
Instant Phonetic Englishization: yah_lahk, for Lolly’s version of the word. The q in Annie’s version of the word is made farther back in the throat.
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.