Associations to the word «Salishan»

Wiktionary

SALISHAN, adjective. Of or like any of the Salish peoples or their languages.

Dictionary definition

SALISHAN, noun. A family of Mosan language spoken in northwestern United States and western Canada.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats