ʔaciɫtalbixʷ

Lushootseed

pronunciation: ʔa ciɫ tal bixʷ

word analysis: from Proto-Coast Salish *tal-mixʷ, *tal-mix ("Native American(s), person/people") perhaps related to Proto-Salish *qal-mixʷ ("person").

noun

pastəducid

1. Native American(s), Indian(s), indigenous person (people) of the Americas
   • ʔaciɫtalbixʷ ʔu ti adsč̓istxʷ.

   Is your husband Indian?

2. human being, person, people

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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. 3
• 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. 8
• 2002, Aert H. Kuipers, "Salish Etymological Dictionary", University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 16, ISBN 1-879763-16-8, pp. 82, 152