4,791 terms are nouns

Hop

ƛúpt ‘jumping, jump, hop’.

pšɨ́t

Definition:

Father.


Examples:

  1. pšɨ́t ‘(his/ her) father’;
  2. inmí pšɨ́t ‘my father’;
  3. pɨnpštmí áwa ‘it’s his father’s’;
  4. pšɨtmaamí łk̓ʷí ‘Father’s day’;
  5. pšɨtłk̓ʷí ‘Father’s day’.
  6. ku kʷná inmí pšɨ́t iwɨ́npɨnx̣ana k̓súyasna ‘and there my father used to get eels’;
  7. iq̓ínušana pšɨ́tpa ‘he saw his (own) father’;
  8. áq̓inunx̣anaaš inmína nč̓ína inmína pšɨ́tna ‘I used to see my elder, my father’;
  9. iq̓ínwayišana paanáy pšɨ́t ‘he saw his (the other person’s) father’;
  10. iq̓ínušana pɨnmíin pšɨ́t ‘he saw his (own) father’;
  11. iwapáataša pšɨ́tpa naknúwit k̓úsina ‘he is helping his father take care of the horse’;
  12. pšɨ́tin pawášaša k̓áwkpa ‘he is riding with his father’;
  13. wínšna miyánašna pásapsik̓ʷasana pšɨ́tin ƛ̓áax̣ʷ tún ‘the father was teaching a male child everything’;
  14. k̓ʷáy áwača sápsik̓ʷat inmí pštmí ‘that was the teaching of my father’;

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túta ‘father!’;

natútas ‘my father’;

tút ‘your father’;

tút iwá ‘it’s your father’;

tútin wínatk ‘go with your father!’;

tút iwinána ‘your father went’;

tutápnaš iq̓ínušana ‘your father saw me’;

natutasanmí áwača náx̣š pát ‘my father had an older sister’;

[NP /pst/.]

Kinship terms

Horn

yúkaas ‘antler, horn’; kƛáa yúkaas ‘forked horn’; wanpáwas ~ wanpt̓áwas ‘radio, bull horn’; šapuuláylakaš ‘flute, trumpet’; wacwácnu ‘saddle horn’.

Horn Rapids

Wanawíš ‘Horn Rapids, Benton County, Washington’.

Hornet

atníwa ‘yellowjacket, wasp, hornet, bee’.

Horse

k̓úsiEquus ferus caballus‘; k̓usinmí asúusu ‘horse’s hoof’; k̓usinmí tútanik ‘horse hair’; k̓usinmí wáłx̣ʷas ‘horse’s tail’; čmáakʷ ~ čmáakʷk̓úsi ‘dark horse’; čmúkk̓úsi ‘black horse’; čmúk łamtɨ́x̣ ~ čmúkłamtx̣ ‘darkheaded horse’; hawlapáwlapk̓úsi ‘prancing horse’; kawxkáwx ‘palomino horse’; kutkutpamák̓úsi ‘work horse’; k̓iix̣k̓íix̣ ‘dun colored horse’; k̓úsi šiwíwšiwiw ‘chestnut horse’; lamtlámt ~ lámt ‘gray horse’; liláwlilaw ‘bay horse with white belly’; luc̓á ~ luč̓á ~ luč̓á k̓úsi ‘bay horse’; luc̓amšyú ‘white horse with dark ears’; luč̓áłamtx̣ ~ luč̓áłamtx̣qaašqáaš ‘strawberry roan’; luč̓á łamtx̣ník̓úsi ‘strawberry roan with red head’; máamɨn ~ máamɨnk̓úsi ‘appaloosa horse’; mɨqɨ́š ‘sorrel horse’; páƛ̓ɨmux̣i ~ patk̓ʷáylaki ‘piebald, baldface or blazed face horse, horse with a white blaze in the forehead’; pátk̓ʷiiki ‘buckskin or orangish horse with a dark back stripe, buckskin horse with a black mane and tail’; paˀáx̣k̓úsi ‘buckskin horse’; paˀax̣wáakuł ‘palomino horse’; puˀúx̣ ‘faded blue-gray horse’; puˀúx̣puˀux̣ ‘darker buckskin horse’; puux̣púux̣ ‘gray horse with darker mane’; qaˀáwk̓úsi ‘fast horse’; qaˀáwqaˀaw ‘white horse’; qaašqáaš ‘dark sorrel or roan horse’; qúyx̣k̓úsi ‘white horse’; q̓ayx̣q̓áyx̣ ‘white horse with pink eyes and pink skin, albino horse’; qʷnaytitpamák̓úsi ‘pack horse’; q̓ʷíni ‘swayback horse’; šápi ~ šápik̓úsi ~ šapášapik̓úsi ‘pack horse’; šiwíwšiwiw ‘sorrel horse’; šk̓úyšk̓uyk̓úsi ‘dark brown horse’; šuukawáakuł ~ šukáašuka ‘bluish-white horse with white mane and white eyes; bluish-gray horse with little white spots’; taláyi ‘stallion’; támšilpi ~ támšilpik̓úsi ‘spotted horse (with brown or black spots), pinto’; tamšíltamšil ‘horse with small dots (dalmatian like)’; támƛ̓aaki ~ tamáƛ̓aakik̓úsi ‘patched horse (black horse with a white patch; bay horse with a patch)’; taqawáakuł ‘palomino horse’; ƛx̣ɨ́tk̓úsi ‘broken horse’; waakmuykłák̓úsi ‘bucking horse’; waláyxʷtkik̓úsi ‘hobbled horse’; wapáwanik̓úsi ‘decorated horse’; wašanáł ‘unridden wild horse’; wáwc̓aakik̓úsi ‘shoed horse’; wíwlu ~ wiwluwáakuł ‘huckleberry roan with some light color on the haunches’; wiwlúwiwlu ‘dapple gray horse, brown and spotted horse’; yikɨ́tk̓úsi ‘wild horse’.

Horse-mint

šúx̣a ‘western giant hyssop, Agastache occidentalis‘. Also called płɨ́x̣winšpamá ‘medicine [for a woman] pertaining to [getting] a man’.

Horsefly

lɨxlúy.

Horsehair

k̓usinmí aníyi c̓íil ‘horsehair head rosette’; nawinałanmí šúu ‘horsehair or gordian worm (Nematomorpha)’.

Horsetail

siikʷsíikʷ ‘common horsetail, Equisetum arvense‘; ‘northern giant horsetail, E. telmateia‘; wap̓áywap̓ay ‘scouring rush, E. hyemale‘. Also pronounced šiikʷšíikʷ and sometimes šáykʷšaykʷ.

Hospital

payuwitpamá.

Hot

lax̣ʷayx̣łá ‘one who gets overheated’.

pšwá

Definition:

Rock, stone.


Examples:

  1. áwqalalaytiša pšwá ‘the rock is rolling down the hill’;
  2. itamáx̣anp̓aša pšwápa ‘he is leaning against the rock’;
  3. átwax̣aynakɨnk pšwáan x̣ʷyáytšyaw ‘roll the rocks into the sweathouse’;
  4. aníyi pšwá ‘stone artifact’;
  5. kkɨ́s pšwá ‘little rocks’;
  6. pšwápšwa ‘rocks’;
  7. t̓ałáa pšwá ‘flat rock (used in making ɨpá)’;
  8. sayaykʷmí pšwá ‘concrete, cement’;
  9. maqɨ́łmaqɨł pšwanmí ‘rock lichen’;
  10. tamákukt pšwá ‘rock weight (for fishing net)’.

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[NP /pswe/.]

Hour

nɨkní ‘turning, hour, time, o’clock’; náx̣š nɨkní ‘one hour’.

House

níit ‘cottage, building’; níitniit ‘bunch of houses’; skuulitpamá níit ‘school house’; k̓ʷáalk níit ~ káatnam ‘long house’; níitaaš ‘house site, vacant house’; wɨlčítaš ‘abandoned pit house’.

Housefly

muxláy ~ muklaymúklayMusca domestica‘.

pɨšx̣wáakuł

Origin:

pɨšx̣ú (bitterbrush) + -wáakuł (like, resembling)


Definition:

Buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum.

pɨ́taat

Definition:

Trees, plants.


Examples:

  1. itáx̣šiša pɨ́taat ‘the trees are waking up’;
  2. áwaqitatak kʷaaná pɨ́taatna ‘go look for those trees’;
  3. ƛ̓áax̣ʷna pɨ́taatna páyamuxlaykɨnx̣ana ‘it [the flood] kept taking out all the trees’;
  4. ana kú išátɨmix̣a ku kúuk ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwɨ́šayčɨnx̣a ayáyat q̓ínupa pɨ́taat ‘when it gets to be fall then all the trees become beautiful to see’;
  5. pɨ́taat ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pináˀikiikɨnx̣a pɨnmikíin apɨ́łapłki ‘[in the fall] all the trees clean themselves of their leaves’;
  6. ƛ̓áax̣ʷ tún pɨtaatpɨ́taat ‘every tree’.

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pátaat ‘tree’

[NP /tewlikt/; cf. Also /petis/ ‘limb, branch’; /ptn/ ‘bush, brush, twigs’.]

ptí

Blue grouse, Dendragapus obscurus. Umatilla mostly tuyá. ík̓ʷak kákya pɨtí ikúšana áčaaš pɨnmínk ‘that bird, the blue grouse, was doing his own eyes’ (Jacobs 1937:36.2.2, pg. 88). [NP /tuy̓é/.]

ptís

Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus. [NP /pptic/.]