Lushootseed DictionaryA celebration of western Washington Native language and culture, Lushootseed Dictionary is a completely reformatted and greatly revised and expanded update of Thom Hess's Dictionary of Puget Salish (1976). Editor Dawn Bates integrates the field notes of Vi Hilbert, Upper Skagit elder and native speaker of Lushootseed, with Hess's analyses, mining information gathered by Hilbert and Hess from Skagit, Tulalip, Muckleshoot, Swinomish, Puyallup, and other Native consultants over a period of thirty years. The dictionary includes numerous example sentences taken from Lushootseed's rich tradition of storytelling, made popular by Hilbert's book Haboo: Native American Stories from Puget Sound and her public storytelling career. The introduction to the Lushootseed-English section catalogs Lushootseed word-building structures, and entries exemplify each prefix, suffix, and root. The English-Lushootseed section features encyclopedic entries on many culturally significant topics such as Native canoe classifications and animal names. Scientific classifications are included for botanical terms, and cultural information makes the volume interesting for the nonlinguist. An extensive introduction explains the structure of entries and provides clear definitions of grammatical terms. A detailed description of the sounds of Lushootseed will be invaluable for learners of the language. The traditional dictionary format is readable and economical, resulting in a volume of manageable size. Lushootseed Dictionary is intended for use by a diverse readership which includes Lushootseed speakers and their families, people of Lushootseed heritage unfamiliar with the language, linguists, folklorists, and thoseinterested in oral literature and the Native culture of Washington State. |
Common terms and phrases
acił ácił talbix adjectival demonstrative adverb bark basket bək blanket bu?q čad canoe cedar čǝx čəd dx"?al čəd ə čəda cədił čəł čələp čət čəx clam clothing Compare composed of prefixes Contrast dəč'u dəgi di?ǝ di?ə dił dried dx?al ə tə ə ti?ə ə ti?ił əlg"ə əlgə əw'ə fish folks gəl gloss hair head horse clam hunting kədi lexical categories lexical suffix lə tə Lushootseed mountain mountain goat Muckleshoot one's paddle predicate adverb predicate particle q'il'bid qəl recorded red1 red2 red3 redl Rejected river root salmon salmonberry sbiaw šəq side Snohomish someone sound spirit power stab StCh stubš Suquamish swatix™təd Swinomish təd təq ti?ǝ tí?ə ti?it tilə tree tsi?ǝ tsi?ə tsilə tul?al tuš ucid unidentified wiw'su x'al xəč xəł xət xu?ələ you.-LG