Close, close with the hand, obstruct, block, shut (door, gate). ápak̓ɨnkɨnk ‘close the gate!’; ápak̓ɨnkɨnk pčɨ́šna ‘close the door!’; pák̓ɨnkɨnk pčɨ́š ‘close your door!’; ipák̓ɨnka pčɨ́šna ‘he closed the gate’; ku papák̓ɨnkɨnx̣a pčɨ́šna ‘and they close the door’; ipák̓ɨnkšana wíwnuna patátuyki ‘she covered the berries with fir’; pák̓ɨnki iwá wána ‘the river is dammed’; pák̓ɨnkt ‘dam’. [NP /wepék̓lk/; /cúuyek̓lk/
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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).
