Friday, October 24, 2025, 10:49 PM
Site: Samish E-Classroom
Course: Introduction to Samish Language (Samish99)
Glossary: Final Glossary
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| CM | |
| | container people, suffix
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| CM | |
| | suffix for house or building
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| CM | |
| | (suffix) question (like '?')
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| CM | |
| | infix for plural
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| CM | |
| | involvement, activity, etc.
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| CM | |
| | head (affix) c.f. sqw'ongi
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| CM | |
| | we
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| CM | |
| | future tense marker used with 'we' Example: Tl'í7-lhe-lh.. 'We will need..'
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| CM | |
| | accidentally; glimpse; not on purpose (affix)
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| CM | |
| | face (affix) c.f. sos
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| CM | |
| | he, she, it (3rd person)
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| CM | |
| | future tense marker
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| CM | |
| | I (suffix)
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| CM | |
| | foot, feet, (affix) c.f. sxene
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| CM | |
| | hand (affix) c.f. sales
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| CM | |
| | Suffix meaning "you"
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Á
| CM | |
| | Yes
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| CM | |
| | oh my! (omg)
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| CM | |
| | crab
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| CM | |
| | house
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| CM | |
| | put away
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| CM | |
| | said
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| CM | |
| | wipe, polish
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| CM | |
| | old
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| CM | |
| | present
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| CM | |
| | apple
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| CM | |
| | seal
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C
| CM | |
| | dish(es)
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| CM | |
| | short
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| CM | |
| | apparently, reportedly
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| CM | |
| | frying pan
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| CM | |
| | fry
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| CM | |
| | Ant 
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| CM | |
| | black duck
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| CM | |
| | ant
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| CM | |
| | using
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| CM | |
| | two people
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| CM | |
| | made, make
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| CM | |
| | to work
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| CM | |
| | tool
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| CM | |
| | mink, weasel
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| CM | |
| | from
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| CM | |
| | from there
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| CM | |
| | turn over
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| CM | |
| | teeth
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| CM | |
| | summer
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| CM | |
| | spring
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| CM | |
| | winter
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| CM | |
| | gloves
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| CM | |
| | Two 
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| CM | |
| | owl
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| CM | |
| | bluejay
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| CM | |
| | blackcap
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| CM | |
| | grow(ing)
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| CM | |
| | blue
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| CM | |
| | thick
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| CM | |
| | use
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| CM | |
| | found
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| CM | |
| | our (as in taste)
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E
| CM | |
| | universal preposition
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| CM | |
| | butterball
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| CM | |
| | wipe,
polish (with affix)
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| CM | |
| | Indians (pl.)
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| CM | |
| | while
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| CM | |
| | people
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| CM | |
| | getting fruit
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| CM | |
| | Salmonberry
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| CM | |
| | buy, purchase
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É
| CM | |
| | sit (down/up)
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E
| CM | |
| | play
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| CM | |
| | your
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| CM | |
| | come
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| CM | |
| | bring
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| CM | |
| | too
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É
| CM | |
| | I; me (emphatic)
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E
| CM | |
| | stative
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| CM | |
| | outside
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| CM | |
| | cheap
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| CM | |
| | can not
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| CM | |
| | inside
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| CM | |
| | <>what (stative)
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| CM | |
| | on top of
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| CM | |
| | how (why)?
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| CM | |
| | span class="nolink"> sleepy
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É
| CM | |
| | negative, don't, no
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| CM | |
| | nothing, zero
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| CM | |
| | good, great
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| CM | |
| | (it's) a nice day
|
H
| CM | |
| | remember
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| CM | |
| | sneeze
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| CM | |
| | very big
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| CM | |
| | alive
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| CM | |
| | pink salmon
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| CM | |
| | rabbit
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| CM | |
| | big
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| CM | |
| | happy
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| CM | |
| | long time
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| CM | |
| | if
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| CM | |
| | done, finished
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| CM | |
| | thank you
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Í
| CM | |
| | and (sometimes 'or')
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| CM | |
| | eating
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I
| CM | |
| | lost
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Í
| CM | |
| | eat
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| CM | |
| | grandson, grand daughter
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| CM | |
| | pull (on the canoe)
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| CM | |
| | pulling (on the canoe)
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I
| CM | |
| | let's
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| CM | |
| | along
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Í
| CM | |
| | Sleep 
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| CM | |
| | scrape
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| CM | |
| | glad
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K
| CM | |
| | Coat 
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| CM | |
| | Pig 
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| CM | |
| | coffee
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| CM | |
| | (invisible) the, a
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| CM | |
| | hungry
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| CM | |
| | warm, hot
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| CM | |
| | How many people?
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| CM | |
| | how much; how many (question word)
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| CM | |
| | Chum Salmon 
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| CM | |
| | rat
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| CM | |
| | eagle
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| CM | |
| | mouse
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| CM | |
| | (it's) now
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| CM | |
| | Eagle 
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| CM | |
| | help
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| CM | |
| | get; take; get it; take it; grab it
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| CM | |
| | strong
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| CM | |
| | run
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| CM | |
| | invisible remote the
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| CM | |
| | cook
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L
| CM | |
| | there
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| CM | |
| | fix
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| CM | |
| | Purple 
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| CM | |
| | look, see
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| CM | |
| | watch, it watch out, protect
yourself |
| CM | |
| | see
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| CM | |
| | priest, reverend
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| CM | |
| | key
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| CM | |
| | please pass
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| CM | |
| | ashore
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| CM | |
| | (get) well (as opposed to sick)
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| CM | |
| | tired, bored
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| CM | |
| | hurry (up)
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| CM | |
| | bat
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| CM | |
| | take off
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| CM | |
| | cut (the 'et' means 'on purpose, with control')
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| CM | |
| | three
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| CM | |
| | five (wide hand)
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| CM | |
| | five people
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| CM | |
| | wide
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| CM | |
| | Dress 
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| CM | |
| | three people
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| CM | |
| | plate
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| CM | |
| | get(ting) ready
|
M
| CM | |
| | forget
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| CM | |
| | father
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| CM | |
| | all, every
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| CM | |
| | wait
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| CM | |
| | tiny
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| CM | |
| | full
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| CM | |
| | mush (English word for hot cereal)
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| CM | |
| | cup
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| CM | |
| | duck |
| CM | |
| | Duck 
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| CM | |
| | cows
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| CM | |
| | cow
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N
| CM | |
| | my
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| CM | |
| | (emphatic) you!
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| CM | |
| | black
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| CM | |
| | yellow
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| CM | |
| | Red 
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| CM | |
| | green
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| CM | |
| | other + building - activity - visit
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| CM | |
| | one
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| CM | |
| | put in
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| CM | |
| | in
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| CM | |
| | snow (on the ground)
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| CM | |
| | Child 
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| CM | |
| | nose
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| CM | |
| | four people
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| CM | |
| | louse
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| CM | |
| | four
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| CM | |
| | some, exist
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| CM | |
| | that, that's
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| CM | |
| | one person
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| CM | |
| | hello
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Ó
| CM | |
| | aboard; get on this vehicle
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| CM | |
| | just
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| CM | |
| | give
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| CM | |
| | Ten 
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O
| CM | |
| | ten people
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P
| CM | |
| | white
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| CM | |
| | Flounder 
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| CM | |
| | cradle
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| CM | |
| | cat
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| CM | |
| | bed
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| CM | |
| | fall
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| CM | |
| | boat
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Q
| CM | |
| | girl
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| CM | |
| | fins
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| CM | |
| | Anacortes (village on south side of Guemes Channel 'ironwood')
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| CM | |
| | late, slow
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| CM | |
| | Spider 
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| CM | |
| | silver salmon
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| CM | |
| | killer whale
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| CM | |
| | pay
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| CM | |
| | elk
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| CM | |
| | Baby 
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| CM | |
| | rest
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| CM | |
| | weak
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| CM | |
| | steelhead
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| CM | |
| | cooked; ripe
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| CM | |
| | Ear 
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| CM | |
| | BBQ (to cook)
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| CM | |
| | butcher
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| CM | |
| | dead, die
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| CM | |
| | mosquito
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| CM | |
| | speak, talk
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| CM | |
| | talkative
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| CM | |
| | boil
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| CM | |
| | Guemes Island
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| CM | |
| | seagull
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| CM | |
| | shoes
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| CM | |
| | water
|
S
| CM | |
| | nominalizer (prefix) makes a word into a noun (nom.) |
| CM | |
| | word(s)
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| CM | |
| | language
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| CM | |
| | song
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| CM | |
| | hand
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| CM | |
| | old person (one)
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| CM | |
| | of. alexw which means old, plus ‘-el-‘ and the
nom. means many older persons.
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| CM | |
| | fruit
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| CM | |
| | food
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| CM | |
| | snake
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| CM | |
| | fishing
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| CM | |
| | afraid
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| CM | |
| | beach
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| CM | |
| | raise; lift
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| CM | |
| | lazy
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| CM | |
| | aunt, uncle
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| CM | |
| | bitter
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| CM | |
| | fish
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| CM | |
| | friend, relative (singular)
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| CM | |
| | friends, relatives
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| CM | |
| | bear
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| CM | |
| | firewood
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| CM | |
| | ask
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| CM | |
| | land, territory, country
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| CM | |
| | feminine the, a
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| CM | |
| | younger brother or sister
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| CM | |
| | truly
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| CM | |
| | soul, spirit
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| CM | |
| | both grandparents
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| CM | |
| | blanket
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| CM | |
| | Bee 
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| CM | |
| | bread
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| CM | |
| | sockeye
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| CM | |
| | pants
|
| CM | |
| | harvest, game, catch
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| CM | |
| | older brother or sister
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| CM | |
| | knife
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| CM | |
| | peel
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| CM | |
| | To walk 
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| CM | |
| | sir, ma'am, respected one |
| CM | |
| | hair
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| CM | |
| | many ‘si7am’
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| CM | |
| | really
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| CM | |
| | above
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| CM | |
| | God
|
| CM | |
| | cloth
|
| CM | |
| | grandparent
|
| CM | |
| | stand
|
| CM | |
| | this (feminine)
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| CM | |
| | small hoot owl
|
| CM | |
| | crow
|
| CM | |
| | raven
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| CM | |
| | possession
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| CM | |
| | flower
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| CM | |
| | school
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| CM | |
| | woman
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| CM | |
| | through
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| CM | |
| | herring
|
| CM | |
| | soup; chowder; stew
|
| CM | |
| | proud
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| CM | |
| | skunk
|
| CM | |
| | deer
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| CM | |
| | name
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| CM | |
| | butter; light oil
|
| CM | |
| | canoe
|
| CM | |
| | rock
|
| CM | |
| | crane
|
| CM | |
| | grease; oil
|
| CM | |
| | butter clam
|
| CM | |
| | up there
|
| CM | |
| | Holy Ghost
|
| CM | |
| | sweet
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| CM | |
| | mouth
|
| CM | |
| | to fish
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| CM | |
| | spirit, ghost
|
| CM | |
| | basket
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| CM | |
| | fox
|
| CM | |
| | tree(s)
|
| CM | |
| | fence
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| CM | |
| | smoked-salmon
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| CM | |
| | paddle
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| CM | |
| | otter
|
| CM | |
| | potato
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| CM | |
| | beaver
|
| CM | |
| | very
|
| CM | |
| | blackberry
|
| CM | |
| | word(s)
|
| CM | |
| | news
|
| CM | |
| | dog
|
| CM | |
| | drink, juice
|
| CM | |
| | head
|
| CM | |
| | sun
|
| CM | |
| | medicine
|
| CM | |
| | slime
|
| CM | |
| | what (question word)
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| CM | |
| | socks, stocken
|
| CM | |
| | horse
|
| CM | |
| | horse
|
| CM | |
| | nephew, niece
|
| CM | |
| | river
|
| CM | |
| | wolf
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| CM | |
| | backbone
|
| CM | |
| | worm
|
| CM | |
| | trout (gen.)
|
| CM | |
| | then
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| CM | |
| | sugar
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| CM | |
| | horse clam
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| CM | |
| | man
|
| CM | |
| | bad; no good; terrible
|
| CM | |
| | large frog, toad
|
| CM | |
| | a lot of bad
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| CM | |
| | fishtail
|
| CM | |
| | grass; hay
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| CM | |
| | window (nom. object look face activ.)
|
| CM | |
| | cougar
|
| CM | |
| | table
|
| CM | |
| | mountain goat
|
| CM | |
| | story
|
| CM | |
| | car, vehicle
|
| CM | |
| | couch, etc. (of emet)
|
T
| CM | |
| | try on; taste; test
|
| CM | |
| | salalberry
|
| CM | |
| | mad
|
| CM | |
| | paint (red paint)
|
| CM | |
| | put on
|
| CM | |
| | strawberry
|
| CM | |
| | home
|
| CM | |
| | thimbleberry
|
| CM | |
| | six
|
| CM | |
| | six people
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| CM | |
| | Gooseberry Point
|
| CM | |
| | singing
|
| CM | |
| | sing
|
| CM | |
| | pray
|
| CM | |
| | church
|
| CM | |
| | flea
|
| CM | |
| | eight
|
| CM | |
| | here
|
| CM | |
| | money
|
| CM | |
| | Mother 
|
| CM | |
| | bow
|
| CM | |
| | race
|
| CM | |
| | eight people
|
| CM | |
| | nine
|
| CM | |
| | nine people
|
| CM | |
| | mallard
|
| CM | |
| | race-canoe
|
| CM | |
| | this (when in the middle of a sentence, 'e' universal preposition is usually before 'tí7e')
|
| CM | |
| | understand
|
| CM | |
| | try hard (especially in sports)
|
| CM | |
| | tongue
|
| CM | |
| | this
|
| CM | |
| | also
|
| CM | |
| | salt
|
| CM | |
| | touch, feel
|
| CM | |
| | long
|
| CM | |
| | Oyster 
|
| CM | |
| | like, want, need, love (high in value)
|
| CM | |
| | goose
|
| CM | |
| | salt(ty)
|
| CM | |
| | to(ward)
|
| CM | |
| | under(neath)
|
| CM | |
| | small
|
| CM | |
| | box
|
| CM | |
| | open basket
|
| CM | |
| | out of the water
|
| CM | |
| | cough
|
| CM | |
| | put on (top of something)
|
| CM | |
| | clean, wash
|
| CM | |
| | seven people
|
| CM | |
| | clean, (with affix)
|
| CM | |
| | cold (as
in weather)
|
| CM | |
| | seven
|
| CM | |
| | cold (for a person)
|
| CM | |
| | squirrel
|
| CM | |
| | bird
|
| CM | |
| | The, a
|
U
| CM | |
| | (accompaniment) or contemporaneous; am, are, do
|
W
| CM | |
| | who
|
| CM | |
| | frog (general)
|
| CM | |
| | small frog
|
| CM | |
| | boy
|
| CM | |
| | (I) guess
|
X
| CM | |
| | Sick
|
| CM | |
| |
know
|
| CM | |
| | mind, feelings
|
| CM | |
| | pencil, pen
|
| CM | |
| | heavy
|
| CM | |
| | new
|
| CM | |
| | where
|
| CM | |
| | ashamed
|
| CM | |
| | Stormy 
|
| CM | |
| | wallet
|
| CM | |
| | same, like this, etc.
|
| CM | |
| | fast, soon, quick, can
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| CM | |
| | Hummingbird 
|
| CM | |
| | Rainbow 
|
| CM | |
| | dislike, hate, against, don't like
|
| CM | |
| | light
|
| CM | |
| | narrow
|
| CM | |
| | return (back)
|
| CM | |
| | large grey, canvasback
|
| CM | |
| | store
|
| CM | |
| | fly
|
| CM | |
| | phone (hollering device)
|
| CM | |
| | Lummi
|
| CM | |
| | 'bubbling water' cr. in Bellingham
|
| CM | |
| | sell
|
| CM | |
| | Samish
|
| CM | |
| | Samish language
|
| CM | |
| | glasses
|
| CM | |
| | shirt
|
Y
| CM | |
| | go(ing)
|
| CM | |
| | arrow
|
| CM | |
| | tell
|
| CM | |
| | spring salmon
|
| CM | |
| | always
|
| CM | |
| | hat
|
