i-n-i-a-l-u-d-am

Updated: May 4, 2025

The idea expressed in English by the sentence I came to give it to her is rendered in Chinook by i-n-i-a-l-u-d-am. This word and it is a thoroughly unified word with a clear-cut accent on the first a consists of a radical element, -d- "to give," six functionally distinct, if phonetically frail, prefixed elements, and a suffix.

Edward Sapir - Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech