Salish

/ˈseɪ.lɪʃ/

Synonyms for "salish" (14 found)

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Noun(3 words)
geographicindigenouslanguage family

Related words (7)

Noun(7 words)
pacific northwest indigenousregionalsalish individualsalish languagesalish personsalish tonguesalishan language

Related word relations

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More general

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AmerindianMosanNative Americanadjectiveethnic adjectiveethnic groupgeographic adjectivelanguage descriptorlanguage familylinguistic adjectiveregional adjective

More specific

9 entries
Coast SalishCoast Salish languagesHalkomelemInterior SalishInterior Salish languagesLushootseedNooksackSalish Sea regionSalish coast

Collocations

10 entries
Coast SalishInterior SalishSalish SeaSalish artSalish craftsSalish cultureSalish grammarSalish languageSalish peoplesSalish region

Inflections

2 entries
more Salishmost Salish

Derivations

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Translations

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French

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  • salishe noun (noun)

Sample sentences

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The Cecil Green Park house, a Tudor-style heritage mansion, in my university, UBC, sits on top of Point Grey cliffs overlooking the Salish Sea and North Shore mountains. It is close to the Museum of Anthropology.

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I read the article "Syntactic Nominalization in Halkomelem Salish."

Source: tatoeba (10671681)

I read the article "Rhetorical Structure of a Lushootseed (Salish) Narrative."

Source: tatoeba (10671691)

It's the 25th of April of 2025. In the still sunny early evening, around 18:00, I found myself again in Tim Hortons café, this time to enjoy an Earl Grey tea with oat milk, a Crispy Chicken Craveable sandwich, and a Lemon Poppyseed Muffin. There was a corpulent man who was partly Amerindian. Salish, I presume. There were some Bharati scattered about in the hall. Homebound, I noticed that the blue mountains in the horizon are still topped with snow.

Source: tatoeba (13258600)

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