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Squamish, n. and a.|ˈskwɔːmɪʃ|
Also † Skwamish; Squawmish.
[a Comox cognate of Squamish sqxwúˀmiš.]
A. n.
a. A (member of a) North American Indian people of the Coast Salish group of southwestern British Columbia.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of this people or their language.
1846R. B. Sage Scenes in Rocky Mountains 221 The Indians principally consist of the following tribes: the Snakes,..Squamishes, [etc.]. 1884Ann. Rep. Canad. Dept. Indian Affairs 1883 189 (table) Fraser River Agency..Squamish..Hon Sound..367. 1907T. Crosby Among An-ko-me-nums i. 10 The An-ko-me-nums..inhabit the valley of the Fraser River..and include the..Songees, Skwamish, Sumats. 1928J. Mooney Aboriginal Population Amer. North of Mexico 29 Squawmish tribes. 1934Webster, Squawmish. 1955H. G. Barnett Coast Salish of British Columbia 3 Aboriginally the Squamish made their homes on the river named after them at the head of Howe Sound. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIX. 888/1 The principal [Salishan] groups or tribes are:..2, Coast Salish,..Nanaimo, Squawmish, Lummi, [etc.]. 1967A. H. Kuipers (title) The Squamish language. 1969P. Sedlak in Working Papers on Language Universals i. 24 Squamish..must be analyzed differently since the phonetic specification is not that indicated for the cases just discussed Ibid. 26 Mandarin Chinese involves two more features than those necessary to describe Squamish. 1977H. Landar in T. A. Sebeok Native Langs. of Americas II. iii. 356 Squamish. South Georgia Salish; 100 to 200 in British Columbia (1962). |