Out & About – Hulʼqʼumiʼnumʼ Online Dictionary


q’aq’iyew’t-hw	hospital
taktu	doctor
shhwimelu	store, market
telew’t-hw	bank
shtth’ulutth’a’	museum
qiq’qiq’ul’sew’t-hw	jail
shq’uluts’thut	shelter: a place to shelter oneself
q’il’ew’t-hw	smoke house
silew’t-hw	tent
yalhew’t-hw	woodshed
shlhulheel’	dock
spulhxun	field
lelum’	house
shq’uq’ulum’	campsite
shq’uq’ulets’thut	shelter
tsetsuw’	beach
tawun	town


pestun	the U.S., American
mutouliye’	Victoria
shts’uminus	Stz’uminus
kwa’mutsun	Quamichan
sqwxwa’mush	Vancouver
quw’utsun’	Cowichan
s’amuna’	Somenos (a Cowichan reserve); Duncan
ts’uwxilum	Tzouhalem: the mountain and the name of the man
tl’ulpalus	Cowichan Bay
xwulqw’selu	Koksilah (a big house with marking on the walls, near old trestle)
qw’umi’yiqun’	Comiaken (a Cowichan reserve)
xinupsum	Green Point, Kinupsem (a Cowichan reserve)
lhumlhumuluts’	Clemclem (a Cowichan reserve)
hwts’alha’um	River Bottom (place name)
hwtl’upnets	Maple Bay
me’luxulh	Mill Bay, Malahat mountain
shtsa’nus	Deception Pass
shcha’nus	Deception Pass
shts’um’inus	Chemainus; village at Kulleet Bay
yuxwula’us	Kuper Island
yuxwula’us	village on Kuper Island (lit
pune’luxutth’	village on Kuper Island
leey’qsun	village on Valdez Island
thuq’min	village at Shell Beach; Ladysmith Harbour
snuneymuhw	Nanaimo
sa’ukw	Sooke
hwsuyq’um	Patricia Bay
s-hwimelhulh	Esquimalt
lukw’umun	Esquimalt (by naval shipyard, new longhouse area)
stth’e’uw’t-hw	Saanich: East Saanich
shts’alhulhp	Saanich: West Saanich
q’um’asum’	Victoria Gorge
slhiyemun	Sliammon (a place name)
sqwxwa’mush	Squamish
smuqw’uts	Point Roberts
hwlumi’	Lummi Island and Lummi people
hwkw’sutsum	Jaynes Creek
tth’xwumqsun	Sandy Point (place name)
snustsu	Separation Point


shelh	road, path, door, way
she’ullh	roads, trails, doors
she’shlh	trail, little path DIM
sun’hwilh	canoe: leave, depart in a canoe
un’hwulh	canoe: arrive in a canoe or vehicle
yuspay’sukul’	bicycle: on a bicycle
putenum	sail (to sail)
pupute’num’	sailing
pi’pute’num’	sailing
patun	sail (noun)
qa’hin’tul	travelling together
t’akw’	go home
tetsul	get here
shaqwul	cross over to the other side
t’ahw	come down from the mountain, go down to the beach
tsam	go up the mountain, come up from the beach


tl’shhwii’me’lu	going shopping
’uw’ nuts’a’ ’ul’ kw’unu stl’i’	I’m buying only one.
yuse’lu kw’unu stl’i’	I want two
telu	money
tetlu	money DIM
kw’inus	how much money (round objects)
kw’shasels	count money
kw’shasnuhw	count money (manage to)
kw’ushusul’s	counting money
kw’ushusnuhw	counting money (managing to)
kw’i’kw’ushust	counting money DIM
kw’shasulhtstham’sh	count the bills or money for me
kw’ushusulhtstham’sh	counting the bills or money for me
lhsesq’	half-dollars
lhsuq’	half, half of a dollar
nuts’us	one dollar (round object)
yusa’lus	two dollars (round objects)
lhihwus	three dollars (round objects)
xuthinus	four dollars (round objects)
lhq’atssus	five dollars (round objects)
t’xumus	six dollars (round objects)
tth’a’kwsus	seven dollars (round objects)
ta’tssus	eight dollars (round objects)
toohwus	nine dollars (round objects)
’upanus	ten dollars (round objects)
tskw’shas	twenty dollars
lhuhwulhsha’us	thirty dollars
xuthinulhsha’us	forty dollars
lhq’utssulhsha’us	fifty dollars


syaays	work (noun)
t’i’wi’ulhew’t-hw	church
lukwin	cross
st’i’wi’ulh	prayer
stl’ulnup	ancient ground
sxwi’em’	story (true or fiction)
sqwul’qwul’	narrative, story, news, told about
si’win’	wordpower
sqwaqwul’mut	sayings
t’ux	mistake: make a (big) mistake
stsey’ul’lh	sequestered, brought up without exposure (young ladies)


q’upusum’	assembling, gathering
’aw’kw’ul’muhw	large gathering of different Indian bands
sq’pas	meeting (noun)
ts’lhq’uq’a’tul’	meeting: the one he or she was meeting with
slhix	leftover money or goods from potlatching; souvenir (strips of swuqw’a’lh given at potlatches or dances)
xeem’	weeping
ts’lhxeem’	mourners


milhew’t-hw	dance house
tse’lumunew’t-hw	log house
kweyulutstun	opening to let light in or smoke out in bighouse
snuqin’	other room (other end of the longhouse)
qequn’	posts, corner-posts in longhouse