4,791 terms are nouns

Handkerchief

laswíi ‘napkin, wash cloth’; łiitkpamá ‘nose rag’; táwq̓x̣t ~ táwq̓x̣š ‘handkerchief worn around the neck; choker’.

Handle

wɨnpáwas; pčɨšpamá čax̣ɨlpáwas ‘door handle’; wap̓álš ‘digging stick handle’.

Hanger

šapaq̓ičáwas ‘clothes hanger’.

Happening

wɨ́šayčt ‘event, occurrence, birth, home’.

Hare

wilalík (čmúk wáłxʷas wilalík ‘black-tailed hare, Lepus californicus‘; pláš wáłxʷas wilalík ‘white-tailed hare, L. townsendii‘); x̣uupłá ‘snowshoe hare, L. americanus‘.

Harrier

waapniyawałá ‘northern harrier, Circus cyaneus‘ (also, ‘prairie falcon, Falco mexicanus‘; ‘northen goshawk, Accipiter gentilis‘).

Harrow

čap̓uykáwas.

Harvestmen

káatlam wɨx̣á waxalxalí ‘daddy long-legs (Opiliones)’.

Hat

táqmaał; paƛ̓aapá ‘basket hat worn by women’; twatíwit táqmaał ‘power hat’ (worn during a healing ceremony); c̓apx̣mí táqmaał ‘cedar bark hat’.

Hatchet

wacúqt ‘big or small axe’; waƛ̓káwas ‘hatchet, tomahawk’.

Hawk

waapniyawałá ‘prairie falcon, Falco mexicanus‘ (also ‘northen goshawk, Accipiter gentilis‘; ‘northern harrier, Circus cyaneus‘); yítyit ‘American kestrel, F. sparverius‘; qíluš ‘red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis‘; ítatat ‘ferruginous hawk, B. regalis‘; qiqínu ‘fish hawk, osprey, Pandion haliaetus‘ (also sometimes called šáx̣šax̣); p̓íim ‘nighthawk, Chordeiles minor‘.

Hawthorn

šnɨ́m ‘black hawthorn fruit, Crataegus douglasii‘; ašnɨ́maašu ~ šnɨ́maašu ~ šnɨ́maaš ~ šnɨ́mnaaš ‘black hawthorn tree’; kulakúla ‘red hawthorn, C. columbiana‘ (maybe better, C. chrysocarpa).

Hay

c̓íc̓k ‘grass’; timatí ‘timothy hay, Phleum pratense‘.

Hazelnut

kkúuš ‘filbert, Corylus cornuta‘; kkúušaaš ‘hazelnut tree’; wawačí ‘filbert, acorn’.

plaašpláaš

Kimberly in Grant County, Oregon. iwɨ́šayča plaašpláašpa ‘she was born in Kimberly’.

plašmí

Origin:

plaš + -nmí


Definition:

Aluminum, silver dollar.


Example:

  1. plašmí x̣ax̣áykʷ ‘silver dollar’.

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[NP x̣ayx̣áyx̣ kícuy.]

p̓líwa

Higher altitude sunflower, Balsamorrhiza hookeri; B. incana; B. serrata. Also pronounced píwa.

plɨ́splɨs

Snowberries, the white berries of Symphoricarpos spp. ku káayk pákʷayix̣a kʷiiní plášin plɨ́splɨsin ‘and that white snowberry fruit cleans it’. See saxísaxi.

plús

Patterson, Washington. láˀwiš iwɨ́šayča plúspaLáˀwiš was born in Patterson’. Means ‘brain’ in the other dialects.

He-He

tɨmnawáakuł ‘He-He, place on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation’.