Top, spinning top (a children’s toy). “My father used to whittle tops from spools.” iwáaskliksa sapasíilkas ‘the top is spinning around’; sapasíilkas išapáwaatux̣ɨnx̣ana ánna ‘a spinning top would make the day go back’ (“but we could play with it in the winter”). [NP /tamck̓´paˀs/.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation