Related, related to one another. kúukna iwíniča ana máan kutyana wá ƛ̓áax̣ʷ áx̣ʷay pánaymuni nč̓ínč̓ikni ttáwax̣tkni ‘then he put us each wherever but yet we are all related from our ancestral pedigree’; ačana kú wá ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pánaymuni ‘because we are all related’; ƛ̓áax̣ʷna wá pánaymuni ‘we are all related’; ƛ̓áax̣ʷ šín iwá pánaymuni ‘everyone is related’; ana pmáy pawačá pánaymuni ‘they who were related’. Also pápanaymuni. [NP /píhimyuniˀns/.]
As spoken by a group of elders in the early 1980s when thinking about putting their language to writing.
The words and sentences in this dictionary are mostly the contribution of Twáway, otherwise known of as Inez Spino Reves. Twáway has never flinched from working with linguists, and her command of the “old language” with all its intricacies of grammar and vocabulary is second to none. Other Umatilla contributors are Charley McKay, Donald Joe, Emily Littlefish, Fred Hill, Joan Watlamet, Mildred Quaempts, and Thomas Morning Owl. Animal and plant identifications were much aided by botanist Dave Corliss (personal communication) and by Eugene Hunn (1979, 1990).
