Reconstruction:Proto-Salish/qʷlawl

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

1. 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.