Part of Speech: noun

Definition:

Medicine, herb.

Examples:

1. tuntún áwača płɨ́x̣ ‘they had all kinds of medicine’;
2. ku iwá płɨ́x̣ ɨšk̓apášway ‘and the rose is a medicine’;
3. k̓ʷáy iwá płɨ́x̣ naamíyay wáwnakʷšašay ‘that is a medicine for our bodies’;
4. kuna iníya płɨ́x̣ tútanikay ‘and he gave us medicine for our hair’;
5. áwna áwaqitša tawšáan płɨ́x̣ay ‘now we are going to look for sagebrush for medicine’;
6. k̓ʷáy iwá płɨ́x̣ čalúkš waníči ‘that is the medicine named chalúksh‘;
7. awnam kú paláyša płɨ́x̣ki ‘then you are intoxicated with medicine’;
8. aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘cough medicine’; muláyti płɨ́x̣ ‘herbal tea’;
9. płɨ́x̣ winšpamá ‘giant-hyssop or horse-mint (Agastache occidentalis)’;
10. šuyapunmí płɨ́x̣ ‘the whiteman’s medicine’;
11. tawc̓xtpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘laxitive’;

See more:

šapápłx̣kaša ‘mush on to (such as medicine)’;

płɨ́x̣i ‘treat’;

płx̣pamá ‘pharmacy’.

[NP /sáykiptat̓as/; cf. NP /psqu/ ‘leaf’.]

Medical doctor, physician. pawínašana płɨx̣iłanmíyaw ‘they were going to the doctor’. [NP /saykiptaw̓at(o)/.]

Pertaining to medicine, pharmacy. ana kú čáw tún iwačá płx̣pamá ana kúuš iwá čikuuk ‘when there was no pharmacy such as there is today’.

His, her. Obviative. Internal possession with kinship terms. pɨ́npštnɨmnaš iq̓ínušana ‘his father saw me’ (cf. pšɨ́tnɨmnaš iq̓ínušana ‘my father saw me’); pɨ́npyapin páˀaniyayiya ‘his (somebody else’s) older brother made it for him’ (cf. pyápin páˀaniyayiya ‘his [own] older brother made it for him’); pɨnpštmí áwa ‘it’s his father’s’ (cf. pštmí áwa ‘it’s father’s’); pɨ́npatpnɨmnaš iníya útpas ‘his older sister gave me the blanket’; áƛ̓iyawiya winšmí pɨnašaamí x̣ɨ́tway ‘the man’s wife’s friend died’; áq̓inušanaaš pɨ́npax̣yax̣na ‘I saw his nephew’; áq̓inušanaaš pɨ́npčapa ‘I saw him and his mother’; kuna ákʷayita maykx̣ɨ́lak pyupyuMaqšmaqšna ku pɨ́nˀištapa ‘and we will do even more for Yellow-Bird and his son’; áwɨnaaš pɨ́nˀištapa ‘I told him and his son’.

Area near Priest Rapids, Washington. Also the name of a notable village on the right bank there, and more narrowly the name of Whale Island where traditionally a basketry fish-trap was placed to intercept salmon. (Relander 1966a:51).

Fish basket trap. “The kind that is hung at the foot of a waterfall.” Jacobs 1929:224:20, 21 [NP /tqʷeliks/.]

A word for a part of the tepee.

Pestle. pnáyki ipák̓ʷɨlkša ‘she is pounding with a pestle’. Also tuttpamá. [NP /pley/.]

Son’s wife; woman’s parent-inlaw. pnáyč ‘in-law!’; ínpnayč ‘my inlaw’; ímpnayč ‘your in-law’; pnáyč ‘(his/her) in-law’; čáw mɨnán Spilyáy áwɨnta pnáčmaman Spilyáy ‘never will Coyote tell his daughters-in-law’ (Jacobs 1937:31.17.3, pg. 74). [N pnáč; NP /pnéxsin/.]

A cooking vessel. Jacobs 1929:185:14.

Opposite sex sibling in-law, potential levirate spouse. After the death of connecting kin the term is awít. pnúk ‘in-law!’; ínpnuk ‘my in-law’; ímpnuk ‘your in-law’; pnúk ‘(his/her) in-law’. See also awít. [NP /pnúkn/; /pnuku/.]

Nape of neck, back of head. míšata kʷá tuˀúk pnɨ́x̣ ‘oh what a smelly neck! oh so silly of me!’ (said when one makes a mistake). [NP /plq/.]

Burrowing owl, Athene cunicularia. [WS & Y pípu; NP papóo /ppóo/.]