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.