ʔuyayus

Lushootseed

pronunciation: ʔu ya yus
word analysis: ʔu (perfective) + yayus ("work")

verb

pastəducid

1. working
   • ʔuyayus tsi dčəgʷas diʔadiʔ.

   My wife is working at the other end of the room.

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sources

• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, pp. 13, 276
• 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. 3