qwetsets

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Shuswap

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qʷəˈt͡ʃɛt͡ʃ/

Verb

qwetséts

  1. (intransitive) to leave, to depart
    Tsut m qwetséts newí7s.[3]
    He said that he (the speaker) left.
  2. to begin[2]

References

  1. ^ Tyler, E. B. and W. Bloxam and Daniel Wilson and G. M. Dawson and H. Lefroy and R. G. Haliburton (1891). "Sixth report of the committee appointed to investigate the physical characters, languages, and industrial and social conditions of the North-Western Tribes of the Dominion of Canada." Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 60, p. 714.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Kuipers, Aert H. (1974). The Shuswap Language: Grammar, Texts, Dictionary. The Hague: Mouton.
  3. ^ Lai, I-Ju Sandra (1998). The grammar and acquisition of Secwepemctsín independent pronouns, p. 31. MA thesis, University of British Columbia.