lətəyil

Northern

pronunciation: lə tə yil
word analysis: lə (habitual action) + təy ("go upstream") + il

verb

pastəducid

1. going upstream
   • lətəyil ʔal tə stuləkʷ.

   (somebody/something) is going upriver.

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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. 224
• 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. 6