č̓it

Lushootseed

etymology: < Proto-Salish *k̓ih, k̓i-t ("near")

part of speech unknown

pastəducid

1. close, near
   • ʔuʔukʷukʷ ti dbeədaʔ č̓it ʔal ti ʔalʔal.

   My son is playing close to the house.

1. • ʔuyayus tsi adčəgʷas č̓it ʔal ti ʔalʔal.

   My wife is working close to the house.

see also: (Southern) ʔal ti č̓it, lil

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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. 73
• 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. 3
• 2002, Aert H. Kuipers, "Salish Etymological Dictionary", University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 16, ISBN 1-879763-16-8, p. 40