scapaʔ

Lushootseed

pronunciation: sca paʔ
word analysis: s (nominalizing prefix) + capaʔ ("paternal grandfather") perhaps from Proto-Salish *x̌apaʔ ("(paternal) grandfather")

etymology: < Proto-Salish *x̌apaʔ ("(paternal) grandfather")

noun

pastəducid

1. grandfather
   • ɫudᶻəx̌əx̌bid čəɫ ti scapaʔčəɫ.

   We are going to visit our grandfather.

2. great-uncle (grandparent's brother)
3. grandparent's male cousin (male first cousin once removed)

forms
scapaʔčəɫ

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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. 43
• 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
• 2002, Aert H. Kuipers, "Salish Etymological Dictionary", University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 16, ISBN 1-879763-16-8, p. 127
• great-uncle on Wiktionary
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