Part of Speech: noun

Function:

Purpose nominalizer.

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Examples:

šwát̓aš ‘cloud’;

táp̓aš ‘pine’;

twalúut̓as ‘dipnet’.

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-aš

[NP /-ˀes/.]

Function:

Feminine agentive.

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Example:

twataˀát ‘female Indian doctor’.

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[NP /-ˀato/ (a diminutive variant of NP /-ˀetu/).]

Function:

Instrument nominalizer.

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Example:

kaƛ̓iyawit̓áwas ‘poison’.

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-áwas

[NE -ˀúus.]

Attributive. wáq̓iš ‘alive, awake’; wíyat̓iš ‘for a long time’. [NP /-ˀis/ is more productive.]

Navel, belly button; start of a basket. See also, sápwaasklikt ‘start of a basket’. [WS áš; Y ɨšɨ́š; NP sís /ss/ (one downriver speaker said, ˀéesis).]

Vocative. túta ‘father!’; íła ‘mother!’; tɨ́ta ‘child!’. [NE -aˀ (senior vocative); -a (junior vocative); NP /-eˀ/ (senior vocative); /-e/ (junior vocative).]

Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos. aˀanmí úšaytš ‘crow’s socks, big snowflakes’. [NP ˀáˀa /ˀaˀa/.]

February. áˀami úšaytš ‘March’. [NP /ˀalatam̓ál/; cf. ˀaˀánm ˀicuˀyéeks ‘crow’s socks’ (“big flakes of snow that fall in late winter or March” – Aoki 1994:983).]

Eye. áčaš ilɨ́mq̓iša pt̓ínits ‘the girl is closing her eyes’; spilyaynmí áčaš ‘buttercup, Ranunculus occidentalis; contact lenses’; šušaynšmí áčaš ~ nusuxmí áčaš ‘Munro’s or whitestem globemallow (Sphaeralcea munroana)’; kaluxmí áčaš ‘evening-primrose (Oenothera pallida)’. [Y áčaaš; NP /slu/; áčaš is probably PS *hék ‘see’ (cf. NP /hekn/ ‘see’) plus purpose nominalizer *-eš; cf. NP hekín̓es (/hekn-ˀes/) ‘in order to see, for seeing’.]

Claw. Jacobs 1929:178:21 See aasá.

Wife. ášam ‘wife!’; ínmašam ‘my wife’; ímašam ‘your wife’; ášam ‘(his) wife’; ášam áwiyanawi ‘his wife has arrived’; išánaša ášaapa ‘he’s jealous of his wife’; k̓ʷáy áwa ašammí ‘that is his wife’s’; áƛ̓iyawiya winšmí pɨnašaamí x̣ɨ́tway ‘the man’s wife’s friend died’; ášamin ‘married (of a man), married couple’. [NP /ˀwépne/.]

Wife wanter, one who loves his wife; adulterer.

Eye glasses. išnáwiša ačašpamá ‘he is looking for his glasses’. [NP kicúuynim sílu.]

Nail, fingernail, toenail; claw (of birds, bear). yakanmí aasá ‘bear claw’; aałá ‘a big old claw’. [NP /ˀese/.]

Source, place, tree, bush, patch, source for berries. ililmúkaaš ‘dwarf huckleberry bush’; kkúušaaš ‘hazelnut tree’; mɨt̓ɨ́paaš ‘elderberry tree’; níitaaš ‘house site’; pínušaš ‘gooseberry bush’; sáxataaš ‘raspberry bush’; wiwnúwaaš ‘huckleberry bush’. See also -aašu, -šway. [NP /-nwees/.]

Source. kkáasu ‘Juneberry bush’; šnɨ́maašu ‘black hawthorn tree’; tmáašu ~ tɨ́maašu ‘chokecherry tree’. See also -aaš, šway.

Soft spot on baby’s head; top of head where hair parts, swirl of hair at back of part, cowlick. Also pronounced ac̓ɨ́xˀac̓x. átwankapak ac̓ɨ́xac̓xkni ‘part it from the top’.

Definition:

Magpie, Pica pica.

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Example:

1. tún panáwa áč̓ayma níix̣ pasápilɨmša áswanna náx̣tityaw ‘what are the magpies saying? they’re mocking the boy good for crying’.

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[NE áč̓ak; NW & WS áyˀay; P éč̓ek; NP /ˀek̓ek/.]

Young magpie.

Dolly Varden trout, Salvelinus malma. Also híšlam. [NW číwa; NP /ˀisl̓am/.]