ʔəɫəd

Lushootseed

pronunciation: ʔə ɫəd

verb stem

Lushootseed

1. eat
   • ʔuʔəɫəd ʔə tə biac.

   (Someone) ate the meat.

   • xʷiʔ kʷi gʷadsuʔəɫəd.

   You did not eat.

   • xʷiʔ ləhəlaʔb qa ti dsuʔəɫəd.

   I don't really eat a lot. (literally) It's not really a lot that I eat.

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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. 11
• 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, pp. 85, 97, 134