Right away, immediately, straight through, without stopping. áštx̣awnk ‘go right on in!’; kútkuttx̣awn ‘work through’; láqayx̣itx̣awn ‘shine through’; šúkʷatx̣awn ‘find out right away’; wínatx̣awn ‘go immediately’; wiyánptx̣awn ‘drop by for, pick up along the way’. [NP /-qawn/.]
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).
