sxʷət

Lushootseed

word analysis: s (nominalizing prefix) + xʷət

noun

pastəducid

1. thrush (the bird)

   • ʔuxʷit̓il tə sxʷət dxʷʔal tə xʷudad.

   The thrush fell into the ashes.

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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. 251
• 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, chapter 1