yubəč

Northern

pronunciation: yo bəč

word analysis: Proto-Coast Salish *yumač ("king salmon")

noun

pastəducid

1. king salmon, spring salmon, Chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
   • yubəč tiʔiɫ.

   That is a king salmon.

   • ʔudᶻakʷakʷaləqidəb ʔə kʷi gʷ(ə)əsp̓əkʷaliqid gʷəyubəč.

   And by the likes of someone like King Salmon, who shakes (flaps) his head like someone with his head chopped off!

see also: (Southern) sac̓əb

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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. 278
• 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
• 2002, Aert H. Kuipers, "Salish Etymological Dictionary", University of Montana Occasional Papers in Linguistics, no. 16, ISBN 1-879763-16-8, p. 230
• 2005, gʷəqʷulc̓əʔ, "qiw̓x̌: Steelhead" in Aunt Susie Sampson Peter: The Wisdom of a Skagit Elder, transcribed by Vi [taqʷšəblu], translated by Vi Hilbert and Jay Miller, recorded by Leon Metcalf, Lushootseed Press, p. 240, line 32
• Wikipedia article on Chinook salmon