Pine, ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), western white pine (Pinus monticola), generic tree. sáxat ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a táp̓ašpa ‘wild raspberries grow among the pines’; kupam čáw mún anáwita apam kú wáta táp̓ašpa mɨná ‘and you will never be hungry when you are anywhere in the timber’. [NP /láqa/; cf. NP /tep̓es/ ‘night fishing torch’, from /tep/ ‘fish by torchlight’ plus purpose nominalizer /-ˀes/.]
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