Definition of Songish. Meaning of Songish. Synonyms of Songish

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Definition of Songish

Songish
Songish Song"ish, a. Consisting of songs. [R.] --Dryden.

Meaning of Songish from wikipedia

- Lekwungen or Lekungen nation (natively lək̓ʷəŋən, often called the Songhees or Songish by non-Lekwungens) are an Indigenous North American Coast Salish people...
- (†)[citation needed] Songhees (Songhees: lək̓ʷəŋiʔnəŋ; also known as Lekwungen or Songish) T'sou-ke (also known as Sooke) (†)[citation needed] Northern Straits is...
- Shxw'ow'hamel Soowahlie North Straits Salish-speaking Songhees (a.k.a. Songish, a.k.a. Lekwungen) T'Souke (Sooke) Semiahmoo Malahat Lummi Klallam Tsartlip...
- translated as "place of the shoaling waters." The Songhees people (then called Songish), who now have a reserve in Esquimalt, were originally located on the western...
- changes occur like h-dropping or th-stopping are common. Some might be "sing-songish"[clarification needed] in Trinidad and the Bahamas. Rhotic: Bajan (Barbadian)...
- neighboring dialects of Northern Straits Salish, like Lummi, Sooke and Songish. The unrounded prevelar stop /k̟/ is found only in loanwords, as in CEPU...
- wanted to use original music instead. Paesano subsequently wrote a more "songish" version of the main theme for the sequence, with a basic verse-chorus-verse...
- Lisims (non-TC) Nisga'a New Songhees 1a Songhees First Nation Lekwungen/Songish, Coast Salish Esquimalt (formerly in Victoria) The original Songhees reserve...
- Snohomish Snoqualmie Snuneymuxw (Nanaimo), Vancouver Island Songhees (Songish), Southern Vancouver Island/Strait of Juan de Fuca Sooke, Southern Vancouver...
- the arias – "which for want of a proper English word, I must call the songish part" – were meant to please the ear rather than gratify the understanding...