Reconstruction:Proto-Salish/qʷəłin

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

*qʷəłin

  1. birch

Descendants

  • Coast Salish
    • Squamish: qʷéłiʔn (“birch”)
  • Interior Salish
    • Shuswap: qʷłín (“birch, birch bark”)
    • Okanagan: qʷəqʷłín' (“birch”)

References

  • Nancy Turner; Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America, 2014.
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