Scatter, spread out. ipúx̣ša ‘it is spreading out (such as beads)’; ƛ̓áax̣ʷ ipɨ́x̣ʷna ‘it all got scattered’; čápx̣ʷn ‘spread out’; tíšx̣waapux̣ ‘spread out’; twápux̣ ‘spread out (e.g., hay, coals in the salmon bake, etc.), stir the dust’; wilápux̣ ‘blow up dust’; wiyápux̣n ‘scatter, disperse, separate’; ípuxpuxi ‘spread around’; pɨ́x̣ʷni ‘spread out’. Ablaut: páax̣ʷ ‘spilled out’. [Cf. NP /p´qʷn/ ‘go separate ways’; /p´kʷn/ ‘be loosened’; /pkʷ´y/ ‘loosened’; /pkʷpkʷ/ ‘dust’; /pqʷp´qʷ/ ‘grayish colored’; /púuq/ ‘scatteringly’; /puukpúuk/ ‘gray’; /puuqpúuq/ ‘gray’; /px̣ʷp´x̣ʷs/ ‘gun powder’; /ˀalápxʷpxʷs/ ‘ashes with bits of wood’; etc.]
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).
