L
laguus = cedar mat
l as in "land"
Word beginnings include:
la, laa, lee, li, lii, loo, lu, luu
laagwaa
twenty (20)
- laagwaad
laagwaa sGwaansang gaw
nineteen (19)
la.al
screen at the back of the traditional house
laam
hard liquor
- laamee
laaman
lemon
- laaman.gaa
laamgaa
be drunk
laawiid ginaa
- (n) clothes of one who has died which have been taken over by someone of the opposite moiety
Laawiid ginaasGun.uu ’la da.a kuljuugang. He has plenty of just laawiid ginaa.
laayaa
lawyer
laayaang
cape woven of yellow cedar bark
- yaalaang
- laayangee
- yaalangee
laawiid
- dead person, deceased
’Laaganang laawiid. Festival (feast) of the dead (the mortuary potlatch).
lab
- fast; pretty young woman with slender figure; sound ’drummp’ of something heavy falling into water
Kwa.aay lab’adgagan. The rock went into the water making a ’drummp’ sound.
labléed
minister; priest
- labléedgee
- labléedgaa
laguus
mat (ie cedar woven)
- lagujaa
lahaal
the hand game
- lahalee
lahahl
- play the hand game
- lahaal
lambaa
- number
Lambaa giisdluu iijang? What number is it?
lammduu
domestic sheep
leeluwaad
railway train
- leeluwaadgee
liidada
- read
- liidadayaa
liis
mountain goat wool; yarn of mountain goat wool.
- liisgee
lim.antiisan
rheumatism
- lim.antsísan
- lim.antiisan.gee
- lim.antiisan.gaa
loo.o
law; court
loo.ogaa
be against the law; be illegal
luu
wave; breaker; swell
- luwee
lúuda
be big waves; be rough
luu.l’ooj
rolled outs
luuluu
vulva
luu.m
room of house
- luu.m.gee
Luusan
- be Russian people
Lussan xáadee. Russian people.
luwaa
- be breakers, surf
Luwaa ’iw’waanaan. The waves were breaking hard (against the reef).
