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Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh noun: squamish.

Noun

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sg or pl

  1. (plural, singular) Squamish
    • But when Kwetásel’wet (Steph Wood), who is Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, attended public school in North Vancouver, the focus of her history classes was elsewhere.2024 March 1, Christopher Cheung, “A Walk Through Squamish Legends, Lifeways and Histories”, in The Tyee
    • The event, open to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh community, will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chief Joe Mathias Centre in West Vancouver.2024 October 17, Bhagyashree Chatterjee, “Squamish Nation to unveil 25-year roadmap for the future”, in North Shore

Proper noun

Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

  1. Squamish language.
    • The language school’s philosophy is to create an immersion setting in a homelike environment for babies and their families. Since Sḵwx̱wú7mesh was historically an oral language without a formal writing system, a writing developed over the years, and the current system was adopted officially in 1990.2024 March 8, Gordon McIntyre, “Former Kits little yellow schoolhouse reborn as Squamish language centre”, in The Vancouver Sun

Synonyms of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

Origin of Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

Unadapted borrowing from Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

Phrases with Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

Questions about Sḵwx̱wú7mesh

What does Sḵwx̱wú7mesh mean?
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh means squamish.
What part of speech is Sḵwx̱wú7mesh?
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Sḵwx̱wú7mesh in the dictionary

  1. Sơn Tây
  2. Sơn Vi
  3. səlilwətaɬ
  4. s͞i
  5. sḵelhp
  6. Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
  7. Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim
  8. Sầm Sơn
  9. s—
  10. s—hole
  11. s—t

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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