Thursday
Sx̲e’óthels is the Halq’eméylem word for ‘Thursday’.
Literally Sx̲e’óthels means ‘fourth period, fourth cycle’ (see x̲e’óthels – ‘four‘)
Pronunciation
Sx̲e’óthels sounds like this: skuh-AAH-thulls, except that instead of a K you say the Halq’eméylem hard-x sound (̲x).
Audio: Elizabeth Herrling, Elizabeth Phillips
Structure
Elders made Slhíxws in the following way:
The s- prefix marks nouns.
The -es ending here marks ‘period, cycle’ (in some other words this same ending is pronounced –ós or –ó:s. It can also refer to faces, round things, and money).
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