ʔəs

Lushootseed

prefix

pastəducid

1. (state/condition)
   • ʔəsq́axʷ ti stuləkʷ.

   The river is (in a state of being) frozen.

   • ʔəsʔitut tsi dbedaʔ diʔadiʔ.

   Your daughter is asleep/is (in a state of) sleeping in the other room.

Note: ʔəs combines with roots to make a stative verb. It does not combine with roots that have a stative meaning.

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sources

• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, p. 13
• 1995, Thom Hess and Vi [taqʷšəblu] Hilbert, Lushootseed: The language of the Skagit Nisqually, and other tribes of Puget Sound, an Introduction: Book I, Lushootseed Press, ch. 4
• 1995, Thom Hess, Lushootseed Reader with Introductory Grammar. Vol. 1: Four Stories from Edward Sam, ISBN 9781879763111, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 11, Missoula: University of Montana, lesson 10