hú·ʷis

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Coos

Noun

hú·ʷis

  1. woman

References

  • Marianne Mithun, The Languages of Native North America, citing Leo Frachtenberg, Coos: An illustrative sketch (1922), in the Handbook of American Indian languages, volume 2