Meanings
- pluralsingularSquamish
The event, open to the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh community, will run from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Chief Joe Mathias Centre in West Vancouver.
2024 October 17, Bhagyashree Chatterjee, “Squamish Nation to unveil 25-year roadmap for the future”, in North Shore2 more examples
But when Kwetásel’wet (Steph Wood), who is Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, attended public school in North Vancouver, the focus of her history classes was elsewhere.
2024 March 1, Christopher Cheung, “A Walk Through Squamish Legends, Lifeways and Histories”, in The TyeeI spent the remaining two hours of our British Columbia drive eagle-eyed, looking for more Indigenous signage. They felt like an invitation to learn more and a reminder that there is deep meaning in all these natural features, and compelled me to dive into a Google rabbit hole where I found a YouTube explainer on pronunciation that treated me to an earful of Sea to Sky Highway roadsigns read by a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh individual.
2025 March 3, Kathryn Romeyn, “A Sea-to-Sky Highway Road Trip for Indigenous Culture in Whistler and Beyond”, in Condé Nast Traveler
- Squamish language.
The language school’s philosophy is to create an immersion setting in a homelike environment for babies and their families. Since Sḵwx̱wú7mesh was historically an oral language without a formal writing system, a writing developed over the years, and the current system was adopted officially in 1990.
2024 March 8, Gordon McIntyre, “Former Kits little yellow schoolhouse reborn as Squamish language centre”, in The Vancouver SunSynonyms: Sḵwx̱wú7mesh sníchim
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSquamish language.
Origin
- SquamishSḵwx̱wú7mesh
- EnglishSḵwx̱wú7mesh
Unadapted borrowing from Squamish Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
More words from Squamish
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/S%E1%B8%B5wx%CC%B1w%C3%BA7mesh
“Sḵwx̱wú7mesh.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/S%E1%B8%B5wx%CC%B1w%C3%BA7mesh. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Sḵwx̱wú7mesh,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/S%E1%B8%B5wx%CC%B1w%C3%BA7mesh.
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