SENĆOŦEN: A Grammar of the Saanich Language

4.1. Nouns

We can think of nouns as names of persons, places, and things. Here are some basic SENĆOŦEN nouns that will be used in the rest of this section. Only for the introduction of these words, the stressed vowel is underlined:
TÁN              ‘mother’
MÁN            ‘father’
SÁĆS             ‘uncle’ or ‘aunt’
SNEW̱EȽ       ‘canoe’
Á¸LEṈ           ‘house’
TÁLE             ‘money’
SMÍYEŦ        ‘deer’
SḴAXE¸         ‘dog’
PUS               ‘cat’
O¸               ‘water’
SWIU¸LES      ‘young man’
KÁ¸ṈI¸           ‘young woman’
Á¸ĆE¸        ‘friend, relative’
SḰÁL              ‘word’
SOȽ               ‘road’
SJ͸E               ‘stick’
1 Note that nouns in SENĆOŦEN can also usually be used as verbs. For example, SWIU¸LES SEN is the sentence meaning ‘I am a young man,’ and MÁN E SW̱ means ‘Are you a father?’
2 The word SÁĆS means either ‘aunt’ or ‘uncle.’ If you want to make it clear which you are talking about, you can use the feminine article for ‘aunt.’ These articles are covered in §4.5.

 

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