Sneak up on. iwsákyawašaaš ‘he is sneaking up on me’; áwsakyawak ‘sneak up on them!’; pawsákyawaša yáamašna ‘they are sneaking up on the deer’; wɨsákyawaninaš wačá ‘I was sneaked up on’. [NE wɨsákyuun; wɨsá- ‘lying prone’ plus kú ‘go’ plus directive -awa (NE -uun).]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation