ugʷaləs
Kwak'wala
Alternative forms
- Długwa'las (“U'mista”)
Etymology
Place name of the mountain from the One-Horned Mountain Goat traditional story, also given to the older brother bringing gifts down from that mountain.[1] Possibly from ugʷ(ala) (“acquire a treasure”) + -ala (“agentive”) + -əs (“continuously”). Translated as "the place where people are blessed".[2][3]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡lu.ɡʷa.ləs/
Proper noun
ugʷaləs
- (historical) ugʷaləs (a locale, place of origin of the uəgʷala clan of the K̓uməʔenux̌ʷ.)
- a male given name
Usage notes
- The Latin characters uppercase U+A7DA and lowercase 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 their adoption, only the Greek character λ U+03BB was available to represent the letter used in Latin orthographies, λugʷaləs was or is written with the Greek character.
- The Liqʼwala orthography used by the name is usually bicameral and has capital letters for proper nouns, ugʷaləs with the Latin uppercase may be adequate, ugʷaləs with the Latin lowercase may occur being similar to λugʷaləs with the Greek lowercase.
Descendants
- → English: Glu'gwalus
References
- ^ "Parents win battle to have son's Kwak̓wala name on his B.C. birth certificate", CBC News, 2023-03-30.
- ^ Robert Galois (1994), Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw settlements, 1775-1920 : a geographical analysis and gazetteer, Vancouver; Seattle: UBC Press; University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 249
- ^ Alistair Taylor (29 March 2023), “Vancouver Island couple wins battle to get son’s Indigenous name on birth certificate”, in The Abbotsford News[1]