Reconstruction:Proto-Salish/wənaʔχ

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

*wənaʔχ

1. huckleberry

Descendants

• Coast Salish
  • Twana: wədʔaχ
• Interior Salish
  • Shuswap: wenéx
  • Columbia-Wenatchi: sw'ə́naʔχ (“highbush blueberry”)

References

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