Alphabetical Dictionary

             (Salish to English)

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a - your (shortening of han)

 

 

 

ac - you are (transitive)

 

 

 

ʔa - hello

 

 

 

ahoʔ - cough

 

 

 

an - your (shortening of han)

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ańń - magpie

 

 

 

anwi - you

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ay̓ew̓ti - sit down (all are sitting down)

 

 

 

aymt - mad

 

 

 

ayx̣ʷt - tired

 

 

 

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č̓ čc̓iqʷeʔ - to the right

 

 

 

č̓ snč̓amqn - on top of

 

 

 

c̓?eš - shy

 

 

 

c'?ešm - ashamed

 

 

 

c̓?ulixʷ - sqeltč - deer meat

 

 

 

c̓aslaqs - mosquito

 

 

 

čawm - pray

 

 

 

c̓awlš - wash or bath

 

 

 

č̓ čenʔ - to where

 

 

 

čclcil - five people

 

 

 

čclčstełc̓e? - five animals

 

 

 

čclčste̓lxʷ - five skins

 

 

 

čclčste̓sšn - five round things.

 

 

 

ččye? - grandmother (mother's mother)

 

 

 

če?ƛ̓ upn - thirty

 

 

 

če?łes - three

 

 

 

čelš - hand

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cexʷ - lacks taste/ no taste

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ci/ -  (used with nouns & adjectives) 1st person when noun begins w

sometimes

 

 

 

čicš - arrive (to arrive)

 

 

 

cil - Five

 

 

 

cin - mouth (at end of word has to do with mouth)

 

 

 

čiqsI - I will (intransitive)

 

 

 

citxʷ - house

 

 

 

cǐyec - I (prefaces adjective) - cyeʔc (philisia)

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ck̓ʷečtn - cane

 

 

 

č̓k̓ʷul̓tn - birthday (flathead)

 

 

 

clcil - trees (more than one tree)

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čłc̓il - five sacks

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clčƛ̓ ?upn - fifty

 

 

 

clčsta̓lqʷ - five long things

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clčsta̓sq̓t - five days/Friday

 

 

 

cłip - to hunt

 

 

 

čłipmi - Hunting

 

 

 

č̓łnišut - under

 

 

 

čłpaxem - think (to think)

 

 

 

čłq̓l̓iʔ - lake

 

 

 

č̓luxʷm - dinner

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čłyuxʷt - jealous or a jealous want wanting is a jealous

feeling

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čmiƛ̓mn - butter

 

 

 

č̓mtew̓s n snčłc̓a - ride a horse

 

 

 

čn - I (used with nouns & adj) 1st pers in front of verb

always past tense

 

 

 

cni?n - them

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cniłc - he or she

 

 

 

čolsqeʔ - outside (the place outside)

 

 

 

čp̓ax̣ʷqn - blond hair

 

 

 

čpmpums - brown eyes

 

 

 

čp̓omqn - brown hair

 

 

 

c̓qʷaqi - crying

 

 

 

c̓qʷaqʷ - to cry

 

 

 

čq̓ʷayqn - black hair

 

 

 

čqʷiqʷays - blue eyes

 

 

 

čqʷlqʷeltew̓s - talk on the phone

 

 

 

čqʷnqʷins - green eyes

 

 

 

čs - bad

 

 

 

čsax̣m - near or beside

 

 

 

čsitš - tired or sleepy

 

 

 

čsq̓meltn - hungry

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č̓sus - ugly

 

 

 

čt̓as - skinny

 

 

 

čtim - cloud

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čupels - lonesome

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čur - salt

 

 

 

cuw - say (to say)

 

 

 

čuw - gone

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c̓wet - fetch something out of sight

 

 

 

čwisšnqn - long hair

 

 

 

cxʷuy - come here

 

 

c̓yec - I

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c̓ʔekʷ - blooming (like shining blooming)

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c̓ʔulixʷ - white tail deer

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cʔup - be quiet

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