4,791 terms are nouns

qawšqáwš

Lovage, Canby’s licoriceroot, Ligusticum canbyi. A sweathouse medicine and also a cold medicine. qawšqáwš ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a ana kʷná iwá yáƛ̓pit tiičám ‘lovage grows where the ground is wet’; níix̣ itíwaša qawšqáwš ‘lovage smells good’; qawšqáwš iwá aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘lovage is a cough medicine’. Also called áyun. [NP /qawsqáws/.]

qíluš

Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis. [NW kíya; píyac̓k; NP patámyo ˀilp̓ílp (JB); /pítamyanon/; /wit̓íkwit̓ik/.]

Qimáatayt

A peak near Black Mountain (tehémtehem). Inez Spino Reves.

qínu

Beaver castor. Also x̣ínu. [NP /quynu/.]

qiqínu

Osprey, Pandion haliaetus. [WS šáx̣šax̣; NW t̓úulx̣; NP /saqsaq/.]

Qiqíya

Another set of falls upstream from the big Palouse Falls. Bruce Rigsby.

Jack

tkʷiláttkʷilat ‘jack chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha‘; kaluxkálux ‘jack blueback salmon, O. nerka‘; caakyáy ‘Jack (in cards)’.

Jackrabbit

wilalík ‘jackrabbit, blacktailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus), white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii); čmúk wáłxʷas wilalík ‘black-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus californicus‘; pláš wáłxʷas wilalík ‘white-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus townsendii‘.

Jail

tamaynacáwas ‘prison, jail’; tamaynačtpamá ‘pawn shop; jail’.

Jam

tmaanitmí šapaq̓ʷiišktpamá ‘jam, jelly’; wɨlwɨ́l ‘jello, jam, jelly’.

January

k̓sɨ́t̓al.

Japanese

Capaníis.

Jar

taatpamá ‘vessel, can, container’.

Jaw

ɨ́mtnɨm; tɨ́n; kúmkum ‘salmon head or jaw cartilage, the soft gristle in the head of the salmon’.

Jay

x̣ʷášx̣ʷay ‘Steller’s jay, Cyanocitta stelleri (also ‘blue jay, C. cristata); cpúkux ~ níitpa pax̣ʷíłam ~ yapašpat̓ałá ‘gray jay, camp robber, Perisoreus canadensis (yapašpat̓ałá also for ‘Clark’s nutcracker, Nucifraga columbiana).

qɨ́lp

Under the arms. pánkaštka qɨ́lpa ‘he tied him under the arms’ (Jacobs 1937:31.19.5, pg. 75); wáqɨlp ‘put on a bandoleer’. [NP /waqlp/ ‘put the arms around’ parses as /waq/ ‘in arms’ plus /lp/ ‘take, hold’ (Aoki 1994:384); cf. NP ablaut /waqláaptan/ ‘hold in arms’ (Aoki 1994:343).]

Jeans

lamtmí sulátas ‘blue jeans’.

Jello

x̣ɨpɨpɨ́p; wɨlwɨ́l ‘gelatin, jam, jelly’.

Jelly

tmaanitmí šapaq̓ʷiišktpamá ‘fruit jam’; wɨlwɨ́l ‘jello, jam’.

qmɨmsalí

Hummingbird. qmɨmsalí tkʷátat ‘scarlet gilia, scarlet trumpet, skyrocket (Ipomopsis aggregata)’. [WS qɨ́msali; NE tamámnu; NW qmɨmsá ~ x̣mɨmsá; NP taamámno /taammno/.]