dᶻətgʷadac

Skagit

pronunciation: dᶻət gʷa dac

word analysis: dᶻətgʷad ("salmonberry (fruit), Rubus spectabilis (fruit)") perhaps related to Proto-Salish *wənaʔx̌ ("berry species") + ac ("tree, bush")

noun

pastəducid

1. salmonberry bush, Rubus spectabilis bush
   • dᶻətgʷadac ʔu tiʔiɫ ʔal tudiʔ.

   Is that a salmonberry bush over there?

see also: (Southern)/(Snohomish) stəgʷadac

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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. 90
• 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. 8