dəwʔabš

alternative forms: dxʷdəwʔabš, dxʷduʔabš

Lushootseed

word analysis: dəwʔ ("inside") + bš ("people of") perhaps related to Proto-Salish *mixʷ, *mix = people of the inside (the area inland from Puget Sound, that is, the Cedar, Black and Duwamish River areas)

noun

pastəducid

1. Duwamish
   • tul̓al dəwʔabš.

   She is from Duwamish.

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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. 80
• 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. 7