lilwat

American  

[luhl-uh-wuht] / ˈlʌl ə wət /

Also Lillooet

noun

Lílʼwats, plural Lílʼwat plural

1. a member of a First Nation of interior British Columbia, part of the Stʼatʼimc cultural group.

2. Also called Ucwalmícwts.  the Salishan language of the Lílʼwat, sometimes considered a dialect of Stʼatʼimc.

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adjective

1. of or relating to the Lílʼwat or their language.

Other Word Forms

Inflected Forms

noun

• Lílʼwat
  plural
• Lílʼwats
  plural

Etymology

Origin of lilwat

First recorded in 1900–05; from Lílʼwat líl̓watǝmx, a kind of wild onion and staple food