Cover up, cover over (as with a blanket, canvas, tarp). patamáƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷa miyánašna útpaski ‘they covered the child with the blanket’; itamáƛ̓ɨmux̣a ílukasna lisáaki ‘he covered the wood up with a tarp’; ku útpaski patáwitamaƛ̓mx̣ʷɨnx̣a ‘and they cover each with blankets’; kʷaana waničtna patátamaƛ̓mx̣ʷɨnx̣a ‘they cover up that name (with blankets at a naming ceremony)’; iwáatamaƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷa ‘she covered it up for a while’; tamáƛ̓ɨmux̣i ‘covered’. [Y tamáƛ̓umx̣; NP /híkteˀk/.]
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).
