Pinch. iwísk̓anpaas ‘he is pinching me’; iwísk̓anpaaš wisk̓anpłánɨm ‘the earwig pinched me’. Sound symbolically diminutive version of wíłq̓anp ‘scratch’. [NP /sq̓p/ ‘scratch, pinch’.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation