hikʷ

Lushootseed

part of speech unknown

pastəducid

1. big
   • ʔušudxʷəxʷ ti hikʷ sƛ̓alqəb.

   (He) saw a big monster.

   • ʔuʔəɫəd diʔabac ʔal tə hikʷ qʷəɫayʔ.

   (It) is eating on the other side of the big log.

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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. 109
• 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. 5
• 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, p. 53