Umatilla Language Online Dictionary

4,794 terms are nouns

c̓ítatat

Chickadee, Poecile gambeli (syn., Parus gambeli). Also latítalwit.

Corner; square. c̓kʷíitpa paníča ‘they put it in a corner’; c̓kʷíitpa iwá aluq̓át ‘the frog is in a corner’; c̓kʷíitc̓kʷiit ‘corners, square’; pinápc̓kʷiit ‘four cornered, square’; pinápc̓kʷiit ilkʷasmí ‘blocks’; mɨtác̓kʷiit ‘three cornered, triangle’. [NP cam̓óqam /cam̓qʷam/; cf. also NP /cqʷ´ycqʷy/ ‘conical, pointed’.]

c̓múyaaš

South. paˀaníx̣a nɨnɨ́k c̓múyaašpa tanánma ‘the Indians in the south pick pine nuts’; c̓múyaaškan ‘toward the south’. [WS c̓míyaas; NE luˀúx̣; NP /luˀuq̓íckn̓ikeey/.]

c̓ɨ́pc̓p

Salmon chips saturated in oil with a little wild currant (x̣ɨ́n) added in, powered salmon (č̓láy) mixed with steelhead oil and dried, fish pounded with fish oil, bits of salmon preserved in steelhead oil. waykaanašmí c̓ɨ́pc̓p ‘fish grease’. [NE c̓ɨpc̓ɨ́p; WS c̓ɨ́mc̓m.]

C̓smalpál

Make believe people in the story of Antelope and Coyote whose name sounds like the release of an arrow from a bow. pawšáčičax̣aš k̓ʷáy C̓smalpálma ‘the C̓smalpáls must have moved on’; C̓smalpálma k̓ʷáy pawá c̓áac̓aa ‘the C̓smalpáls are nearby’.

c̓uc̓úums

Boil, carbuncle. Also c̓ic̓úums. [K c̓ac̓úums; C̓ac̓umsiyáy ‘Boil’ (legendary character Jacobs 1937:3, pg. 94); NP /msqoy/.]

c̓uníps

Oak, Quercus garryana. paˀaníx̣ana c̓unipsmí kápɨn ku paˀaníx̣ana páłpas c̓unipsmí ‘they used to make their digging sticks of oak and they used to make their salmon roasting sticks of oak’. Also called kápɨnaaš.

c̓ɨ́x̣as

Anus, rectum. [NP /t̓ican/.]

c̓x̣úuy

Tepee tripod, tepee. iwáquukša c̓x̣úuy ‘he is staking down his tepee’; pátukɨnk c̓x̣úuy ‘set up the tepee!’; ptukí púu c̓x̣úuy ‘the tepees are set up’; wáquuki c̓x̣úuy ‘staked-down tepee’. [Y c̓xʷíi; NP /walím̓niit/; cf. NP cóqoy /cqʷy/ ‘tepee top, smoke hole’.]

c̓x̣uuylí

Tepee. iwáwquka c̓x̣uuylína ‘he pegged the tepee down’; inkáštka c̓x̣uylína ‘he tied the tepee onto the pole’; ičáwaax̣aapa c̓x̣uuylína ‘he lined the tepee’. [Y c̓xʷiilí.]