1,422 term are adjectives

Neat

małáa ‘clean, tidy’; małáamałaa ‘neat ones’.

Neglected

wałáni ‘unwanted, thrown away, discarded’.

New

čɨ́mti ‘new, fresh’.

sɨ́m

Small and sweet. sɨ́m iwá wíwnu ‘the huckleberries are small and sweet’. [Cf. NE sɨ́m̓ ‘lightly, softly’ (of weather).]

sp̓íit

Very slicked down hair. sp̓íit áwa wápšaš ‘he has slicked down hair’; míimi ana kú yápaški pakúx̣ana tútanik aw kú sp̓íit památwanpɨnx̣ana ‘long ago when they would grease their hair they would comb themselves sleek’; twásp̓itk ‘slick down with comb or curry brush’. See also šp̓íit.

Nickle

ayayáš ‘stupid, silly, forgetful; nickel (coin)’.

Nine

k̓úyc.

Ninety

k̓uysáaptit.

Ninth

k̓úyciyaw.

Noisy

čč̓áal.

Nonhuman

-t (numeral classifier); -tík (naptík ‘both’).

sup̓skáł

Unstrung, loose (of beeds, dentalium shells). paníyaaš sup̓skáł k̓pɨ́t ‘they gave me loose beads’. [NP /tayqay̓áy̓/.]

súsuni

Whispered, counciled, rightly guided. ačataš kú pašapáttawax̣na súsuni ‘because they raised us whispered’. [NP /cewcewneˀí/.]

Numeral

-t (nonhuman numeral classifier); -u (human numeral classifier).

sx̣íix̣

Always angry. sx̣íix̣ iwá ‘he is always angry’.

sx̣ɨ́x̣ni

Angery, angered. sx̣ɨ́x̣ni iwá ‘he is angry’. [NE člakní; NP /x̣íc̓emniˀns/.]

šaˀáat

Uninteresting, boring, unaware, bored, unbothered, unconcerned, unnoticing, unharmed, undisturbed. čáw mún pawačá šaˀáat ‘they were never careless’; šaˀáatnam náwa ‘you talking nonsense’. [NP /ninnsic/, /ninnc̓ic/, /ttolát/.]

šáatk

Tangled, tangled such that one cannot pass, brushy. šáatk iwá ‘it is tangled’. [Cf. Y šatatáat ‘unravelled, torn’; NP /satksátk/ ‘thick, viscous’.]

šáax̣

Scary, frightening. [Cf. NP /seq/ in /wepseqséqi/ ‘raise the arms in terror’.]

šaláw

Definiition:

Tired, weak, lazy.


Example:

  1. šaláwš wá ‘I’m tired’.

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[NP /ˀláat/.]