Word of the Day

pšɨ́t

Definition:

Father.


Examples:

  1. pšɨ́t ‘(his/ her) father’;
  2. inmí pšɨ́t ‘my father’;
  3. pɨnpštmí áwa ‘it’s his father’s’;
  4. pšɨtmaamí łk̓ʷí ‘Father’s day’;
  5. pšɨtłk̓ʷí ‘Father’s day’.
  6. ku kʷná inmí pšɨ́t iwɨ́npɨnx̣ana k̓súyasna ‘and there my father used to get eels’;
  7. iq̓ínušana pšɨ́tpa ‘he saw his (own) father’;
  8. áq̓inunx̣anaaš inmína nč̓ína inmína pšɨ́tna ‘I used to see my elder, my father’;
  9. iq̓ínwayišana paanáy pšɨ́t ‘he saw his (the other person’s) father’;
  10. iq̓ínušana pɨnmíin pšɨ́t ‘he saw his (own) father’;
  11. iwapáataša pšɨ́tpa naknúwit k̓úsina ‘he is helping his father take care of the horse’;
  12. pšɨ́tin pawášaša k̓áwkpa ‘he is riding with his father’;
  13. wínšna miyánašna pásapsik̓ʷasana pšɨ́tin ƛ̓áax̣ʷ tún ‘the father was teaching a male child everything’;
  14. k̓ʷáy áwača sápsik̓ʷat inmí pštmí ‘that was the teaching of my father’;

See more:

túta ‘father!’;

natútas ‘my father’;

tút ‘your father’;

tút iwá ‘it’s your father’;

tútin wínatk ‘go with your father!’;

tút iwinána ‘your father went’;

tutápnaš iq̓ínušana ‘your father saw me’;

natutasanmí áwača náx̣š pát ‘my father had an older sister’;

[NP /pst/.]

Kinship terms

ČÁWNA MÚN NÁAMTA
‘WE SHALL NEVER FADE’

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).

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