sɫaɫədəyʔ

Lushootseed

noun

word analysis: s (nominalizing prefix) + ɫa (diminutive reduplication) + ɫadəyʔ (woman, lady)

pastəducid

1. girl

   • ɫuɫaɫlil čəɫ ʔi tsiʔiɫ sɫaɫədəyʔ ʔal tudiʔ.

   That girl and I will live over there.

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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. 141
• 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, chapter 1