4,791 terms are nouns

Loot

tiyánpš ‘that which is taken away, booty’.

Louse

apɨ́n ‘head louse’; apɨ́lapɨl ‘head louse, head lice’; asás ‘nit, louse egg’.

Lovage

qawšqáwš ‘Canby’s licoriceroot, Ligusticum canbyi‘. Also called, áyun.

Love

  1. átawit ‘admiration, devotion’;
  2. ɨstúyaytas ‘love medicine, aphrodisiac’.

Lover

ašampat̓ałá ‘wife wanter, one who loves his wife; womanizer’.

Low

aláy ‘low place, toward water, bottom of valley, shore, beach’.

qʷɨtqʷɨ́t

Stickers, thistle (Cirsium undulatum, C. canadense, C. vulgare). itunáqʷtča x̣lák qʷtqʷɨ́tpa ‘he stepped on a lot of stickers’; qʷɨtqʷɨ́t patátuwi ‘Englemann spruce (Picea engelmannii)’. [NP /t´tux/, elk thistle, Cirsium scariosum; /c´ckak/, Canadian thistle, C. canadense; NW mɨcc̓ɨ́paaš; NP /hesl´ps/ ‘Englemann spruce, Picea engelmannii‘.]

Lumber

šáx̣aapt ‘board, boards’.

Lunch

šápš ‘backpack, pack, lunch pack’.

Lungs

ašúušu.

Lynx

x̣úpx̣up ‘Canadian lynx, Lynx canadensis‘. Also called úup̓uup.

q̓ʷášq̓ʷaš

Great blue heron, Ardea herodias. Umatilla. Also múq̓a. [NP /muq̓e/.]

q̓ʷiˀišq̓ʷíˀiš

Coffee grounds.

q̓ʷíił

Thrush. WS has q̓ʷíił ‘thrush’; Hunn 1990:325 has x̣ʷíił ? ‘hermit thrush, Catharus guttatus‘.

q̓ʷíni

Swayback horse. čáwk̓a šín pawášax̣a kʷaaná k̓úsina ača kú iwá q̓ʷíni ‘nobody rides that horse anymore because he’s swaybacked’. See k̓ʷín.

Macaroni

tapuwáakuł ‘macaroni’.

Maggot

saysáy ‘worms, maggots’.

Magic

watáywit ‘black magic, shamanic magic’.

Magpie

áč̓ayPica pica‘; ač̓áyˀač̓ay ‘young magpie’.

Mahogany

č̓ɨšiwáakuł ‘curl-leaf mountain mahogany, Cercocarpus ledifolius‘.