ꟛugʷē

Kwak'wala

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d͡lu.ɡʷeʔ/

Noun

ꟛugʷē

  1. Treasure.

Usage notes

  • The Latin characters uppercase Ꟛ U+A7DA and lowercase ꟛ U+A7DB were added to the Unicode Standard 16.0 released on 10 September 2024 (Delta Code Charts, Latin Extended-D, Range: A720–A7FF). Before its adoption, only the Greek character λ was available to represent the letter used in Latin orthographies, λugʷē was or is written with the Greek character.

References

  • Franz Boas, Helene Boas Yampolsky & Zellig S. Harris (1947), “Kwakiutl Grammar with a Glossary of the Suffixes”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society[1], volume 37, number 3, page 307
  • Franz Boas, Helene Yampolsky, and George Hunt (1948), Kwakiutl Dictionary[2], page 423