kʷatač

Skagit, Snohomish

pronunciation: kʷa tač

verb stem

pastəducid

1. (Skagit), (Snohomish) climb (up) (something requiring switching back and forth such as a mountain or hill)
2. (Snohomish) climb (up) (something straight up such as a ladder or tree)
   • kʷatač čəɫ dxʷdiʔabac.

   Let's climb over it.

   • ɫukʷatač čəd dxʷʔal tə sbadil.

   I'm going to climb" the mountain.

see also: (Skagit) ʔigʷəɫ

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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. 123
• 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. 5
• 1995, Thom Hess, Lushootseed Reader with Introductory Grammar. Vol. 1: Four Stories from Edward Sam, ISBN 9781879763111, University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 11, Missoula: University of Montana, p. 176