4,791 terms are nouns

Laborer

kutkutłá ‘worker’.

Lacewing

kiyáwkiyaw ‘net-winged insect (Neuroptera)’.

Ladder

watík̓aał; panaytit̓áwas; panaytitpamá.

Ladle

súxas ‘spoon’.

Ladybug

q̓táat támšilpi wáwnakʷšaš ~ támšilpi kákya.

LaGrande

X̣ɨpx̣ɨ́p ‘LaGrande, Oregon’.

Lair

tánawt ‘den, burrow, animal hole in the ground’; c̓iiłanmí tánawt ‘squirrel’s den’.

Lake

watám ‘body of water, pond’; watám aníyi ‘man made lake’.

Lamp

ilaqayx̣itpamá ~ laqayx̣it̓áwas ‘lamp, light producer’.

Lamprey

k̓súyas ~ asɨ́m ~ asúm ‘Pacific lamprey, Lampetra tridentata (syn., Entophenus tridentatus)’.

Land

tiičám ‘earth, ground, property, place’; x̣yáwt̓ałáa tiičám ‘dry flat land’; yáƛ̓pit tiičám ‘wet lands’; púuši ‘having juniper, worthless land’; lahaháam tiičám ‘a far away land’; hawláak tiičám ‘spirit land, heaven’.

Language

  1. -tɨ́mt; ‘Language. Bound’;
    1. šuyaputɨ́mt ‘English language’;
    2. kʷyaamtɨ́mt ‘truth’;
  2. náttun ‘talk, speech’;
  3. sɨ́nwit ‘word, words, speech’;
    1. ičiškíin sɨ́nwit ‘words in the Indian language’;
    2. Imatalamłaamí sɨ́nwit ‘Umatilla language’;
    3. tananmaamí sɨ́nwit ‘language of the Indians’;
    4. tanán sɨ́nwit ‘Indian language’;
    5. Wɨšx̣aamí sɨ́nwit ‘the Wishram language’.

Lantern

ilaqayx̣itpamá ~ laqayx̣it̓áwas ‘light, light producer’.

Lap

táama ‘area above the knees’.

Larch

kmíla ‘tamarack, Larix occidentalis‘.

Lariat

tamastkáwas ‘lasso rope, rope’; nɨkastkáwas ‘pigging string, lariat, tepee tying rope, moccasin or shoe lace’.

Larva

k̓ask̓aspałá ‘mosquito larva; water skipper’.

Lasso

tamastkáwas ‘lasso rope’.

Latigo

támayči tak̓páwasay.

Law

tamánwit ‘legislation, government, edict, ruling, proposal, right’; miimá tamánwit ‘traditional law’; spilyaynmí tamánwit ‘Coyote’s law’; šuyapunmí tamánwit ‘whiteman’s law’.