sqʷaliʔ

Lushootseed

word analysis: s (noun prefix) + qʷaliʔ ("grass, hay") = (place where there is a lot of) grass

noun

pastəducid

1. Nisqually
   • tuĺʔal sqʷaliʔ.

   (He) is from Nisqually.

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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. 188
• 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. 7