Part of Speech: noun

Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis), Rocky Mountain Juniper (Juniperus scopulorum). paˀaníx̣ana tawtnúk puušmíki tmaanítki ‘they used to make a medicine with juniper berries’; puušmí tmaanít ‘juniper berries’; púuši ‘having juniper, worthless land’. A tea made from juniper berries was used as a cough medicine. [NE puˀúš; NP /ck̓éyelk/; cf. NP /pohos/ ‘mountain mahogany hardwood, Cercocarpus ledifolius‘.]

Juniper tree.

Box. [English box.]

Redmond, Oregon. Millstein 1990b.

House cat, Felis cattus. Also píšpiš, kitís. [NP /pcpc/.]

Long paint bag.

Gray horse with darker mane. [NP /puukpúuk/.]

Snow. Often pronounced púwi. páwilaˀik̓ukša púuyna ‘it’s drifting the snow into a pile’; páˀiƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷix̣a pɨnmikíin púuyki ‘it covers it with its snow’; ana čí iwá púwi ‘this which is the snow’; kʷná kúušx̣i púwi iwá ‘it is snow there in the same way’; itwák̓aatkša púuyna ‘he’s shoveling the snow away’; ɨščɨ́t iwačá ƛ̓áax̣ʷ púwi ‘the road was all snow’; iwačá nč̓í púuy ‘there was a big snow’; tiičámna páˀiƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷix̣a pɨnmikíin púwiki ‘it [winter] covers the ground with its snow’; iwačá nč̓í púuy ‘there was a big snow’; kkɨ́s púuy ‘fine snow’. [NE puˀúy; NP /méqeˀ/ (Aoki 1994:436: may be loan from Salish); cf. NP /pohoy/ ‘fine snow, hard snow’.]

Snowbird, dark-eyed junco, Junco hyemalis‘.

Cradleboard, baby board. pčíin páčax̣ʷłka puwat̓áwaskni miyánašna ‘the mother loosed the child from the cradleboard’. [The dialects have variously sk̓ín, tamcásas, tíkaaš; NE ɨsk̓ín; NP /tikeˀs/.]

Great grandparent. púx káła ‘maternal great-grandmother’; púxpux ‘greatgreat-maternal-grandmother’. [NE puux; puuxpúux; NP /px̣ʷc/, /px̣ʷpx̣ʷc/ ‘great grandparent, great grandchild’.]

Liar, one prone to lying. ič̓ɨ́škawašaaš p̓uxlíkšnɨm ‘the liar is lying to me’; áa p̓úxlikš iwá ‘ah he’s prone to lying’.

Stone. This was the skull which had been severed from miimánu ‘owl’; p̓íim ‘nighthawk’ killed him. [NP /psweyéye/.]