wápiyaš

Fishing platform or scaffold (made of lumber but originally a rock); warp in basket weaving (‘warp’ also called, nɨkáštkt ‘tying’). Also pronounced, wápyaš. wápiyaš áwa kʷná ‘they have a fishing rock there’; aníša wápiyaš ‘he’s making his fishing scaffold’; šáx̣aapški aníyi wápiyaš ‘fishing scaffold made with lumber’; šax̣aapšmí wápiyaš ‘wood fishing scaffold’; wápyawayčt ‘the back and forth part of the beginning of a basket’. [WS wáwtanaš; Y tapatuktpamá, twaluutpamá; NP láwyalaniwaas /láwyalannwaas/.]