Definition:
Sun.
Examples:
itináytɨmš áw án ‘the sun has come up now’;
iwiyátk̓ukša án ‘the sun is getting straight up’;
itináynatšaykš án ‘the sun is going down’;
áw páwiyaˀilukayi ánna ‘he has made fire for the sun now (said of a sundog)’;
áwna iwináanakʷša án ‘now the sun is leaving us (said when getting delayed)’;
áana čáw šíin pánkaštkɨn ánna ‘oh, nobody has tied up the sun (said when running behind schedule)’;
čáw šíin pánkaštkɨnx̣a ánna áwna iwiláalakʷša nɨknínɨm ‘nobody ties up the sun (you can’t stop time), the time is leaving us now’;
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ánɨm ‘winter’;
anwíč ‘spend winter’;
anwíčt ‘year’;
anwím ‘last year, next year’;
álxayx ‘moon’;
anpamá ‘clock, watch’.
[Y áan; NP /hísemtuks/ ‘sun, moon’; /wyetenet(u)/ ‘sun’ < ‘traveler’ (occurs mostly only in names).]
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).
