‘tears’,

easy way to type it:   

        kw@’ala,

also: kwaala

Lolly Metcalf’s Coos Bay Milluk

Americanist Phonetic

 IPA

[ kwəʔála],

 then

[ kwáʱala· ]

[ kwəˈʔɑlɑ],

 then

[ ˈkwɑʱɑlɑˑ ]



Link to the Sound File: Click on the link below to get to a page where there is a sound file of this interview segment. 

https://soundcloud.com/miluk-org/tears-lhm-interview/s-sjHPq    


Instant Phonetic Englishization:  kwuh_’ah_lah, for the version of the word that Swadesh had in his notes which he must have gotten from Lolly earlier, and kwah_ah_lah for the version of the word that Lolly says next, where the glottal stop is weakened into being a voiced h. 



We do not have anything from Annie Miner Peterson to match this word.