Part of Speech: noun

The July Grounds. The area at Mission, Oregon, where the Fourth of July celebrations used to be held.

Bison, Bison bison. cuułɨmmaamíkni tiičámkni iwáyčɨma pɨ́t̓x̣anupa ‘from the buffalo country he came across on the mountains’. Probably a loan from Nez Perce. See also músmuscɨn. [NP /qoq̓álq/; cf. NP /cúłm/ ‘bull’; cf. Spokane Salish scúłm ‘bull’.]

Butter. From Nez Perce. [NP cóoyak̓papt /cép-weye-k̓pap-t/.]

Winter solstice. c̓áat anwíčt ‘new year’. [Y tamásklikt; NP c̓áˀin /c̓áˀnt/.]

Boil (a sore).

Halter (for horse). [NP /wes´tkeˀs/; cf. NP /c̓al̓ákstin/ ‘rattlers made from dried deer dewclaws’.]

Cedar root. c̓apx̣mí paˀaníya wápas ‘they made their basket of cedar bark’; c̓apx̣mí táqmaał ‘cedar bark hat’; c̓apx̣mí tkʷsáy ‘cedar root basket’; c̓apx̣mí ‘cedar root basket’. [NP /taltanm peqt/ ‘cedar bark’.]

Hard berry basket made from cedar roots, often embrocaded with bear grass (yáay), Klickitat basket. [Y wáx̣ʷɨntaš; NP /cóx̣aapt/ ~ /wíx̣aˀpt/.]

Mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus. From Nez Perce. [S wáaw; NP /c̓ax̣ísx̣is/.]

Olive shell, cowry shell. tamc̓íc̓it ‘hail’. [NP /c̓ic̓it/.]

Grass, hay. itkʷátax̣ana Wawatáway c̓íc̓kna ‘Antelope would eat the grass’; k̓úsi ispátaša c̓íc̓kna ‘the horse is eating grass’; ku kʷná iwá tiičám anam kʷná šapáttawax̣ta c̓íc̓k ‘and there is the land where you will grow your hay’; patáax̣alux̣ana calutimat̓áwas c̓íc̓kki ‘they would dye their cornhusk bags with grass (for green)’. Forage grasses also waskú. Hunn 1990:334 [NP /c̓xc̓x/.]

Circle, hoop. c̓íil waasklikáwas ‘hoop game hoop’.

Circle, hoop for the hoop game (patkʷaytalí). [NP /cilpcílp/.]

Washington ground squirrel, Urocitellus washingtoni. [Cf. NP /c̓íx̣lu/ ‘mountain squirrel’ (Aoki 1994:73), from /c̓íqn/ ‘speak, talk’ plus /-lu/ (see -nu).]

Belding’s ground squirrel, Urocitellus beldingi.

Sweetener. c̓ikáwas pánim ‘pass the sweetener!’.

Wagon. Umatilla mostly uses šáwlakaykaš. kʷnátaš c̓íkc̓ik wáanitšana sk̓ínpa kutaš panákwayča k̓áwkik̓a ‘we left our wagon there at Wishram and they took us across by boat’. [Cf. Klamath č̓iikč̓iik (Barker 1963:91); word is from Jargon (Beavert & Hargus 2009:249).]

Snail. [NP /q̓alapóoya/.]

Weasel, ermine, Mustela erminea. In winter pelage. See also watáy. [NP /c̓´łiłee/.]

Pastry, cake, dessert. patkʷátax̣a c̓iłimá ‘they eat their pastry’.