u

Lushootseed

noun

pastəducid

1. The thirty-ninth letter of the dxʷləšucid alphabet, pronounced as a rounded non-low back vowel.

   • The pronunciation is sometimes like the "u" in "ulu‘", "umami" or "truth" and sometimes like the "o" sound in "bone".

   Examples: stuləkʷ, tudiʔ, kupi

see also: uy

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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. xiii
• 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

prefix

pastəducid

1. (indicating an activity that is completed or as a whole; often expressed in English as the past or perfect tense)

see also: ʔu

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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. 19
• 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, p. 173