stəgʷad

Southern, Snohomish

pronunciation: stə gʷad

word analysis: s (nominalizing prefix) + stəgʷad ("salmonberry (fruit), Rubus spectabilis (fruit)")

noun

pastəducid

1. salmonberry (fruit), Rubus spectabilis (fruit)
   • ʔuc̓əbəb čəd ʔə tə stəgʷad.

   I picked salmonberries.

2. hikʷikʷ tə sq̓ʷəlaɫəd ʔə ti stəgʷad gʷəɫ čəlqʷubaʔ xʷiʔ ləhikʷikʷ.
   • The fruit of the salmonberry are big and those of the blackcap are not big.

see also: (Skagit) dᶻətgwad

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sources

• 1994, Dawn Bates, Thom Hess and Vi Hilbert, Lushootseed Dictionary, ISBN 0-295-97323-4, University of Washington Press, pp. 220, 221
• 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, lesson 8
• 2005, Dawn Bates, "Person Marking in Lushootseed Subordinate Clauses" in International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 63, no. 3 (July 1997), University of Chicago Press, p. 325