x̌payʔac

Lushootseed

word analysis: x̌payʔ ("red cedar") + ac ("tree, bush")

noun

pastəducid

1. red cedar tree, western red cedar, Thuja plicata
   • tiʔiɫ luƛ̓ x̌payʔac

   that old red cedar tree

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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. 267
• 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
• 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. 91
• taqʷšəblu Vi Hilbert Ethnobotanical Garden, Seattle University campus