Reconstruction:Proto-Salish/qʷlawl

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This Proto-Salish entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Salish

Noun

*qʷlawl

edible tuber

Descendants

Coast Salish
- Squamish: qʷuláwa
- Klallam: qʷłúʔiʔ (“blue camas”)
- Saanich: qʷłáal (“camas (Camassia sp.)”), qʷłáʔəl (“blue camas”)
Interior Salish
- Shuswap: qʷléwe
- Thompson: qʷléwe (“onion”)
- Lillooet: qʷláwaʔ (“onion”)
- Okanagan: qʷeláwi
- Montana Salish: qʷlíwyeʔ

References

Nancy Turner; Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America, 2014.
Jan Van Eijk; The Lillooet Language: Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, 2013.

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