pastəd

Lushootseed

word analysis: from pastəducid Boston as the first group of permanent white settlers in the area were from Boston

noun

pastəducid

1. white person, Caucasian
2. (less common) English-speaking (white?) American

see also: xʷəltəb

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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. 160
• 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