bədaʔ

Northern

etymology: < Proto-Coast Salish *məna ("offspring")

pronunciation: bə daʔ

noun

pastəducid

1. one's child, offspring, son, daughter

see also: (Southern) bədəʔ

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sources

• 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
• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, p. 35
• 2002, Aert H. Kuipers, "Salish Etymological Dictionary", University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 16, ISBN 1-879763-16-8, p. 144