Part of Speech: noun

Western wake robin, western white trillium, Trillium ovatum.

Top, spinning top (a children’s toy). “My father used to whittle tops from spools.” iwáaskliksa sapasíilkas ‘the top is spinning around’; sapasíilkas išapáwaatux̣ɨnx̣ana ánna ‘a spinning top would make the day go back’ (“but we could play with it in the winter”). [NP /tamck̓´paˀs/.]

Television.

Teacher. Also sapsik̓ʷałá.

Wheel barrow.

Salve; kinnikinnick (NW). A salve for cuts and wounds that was made from certain leaves mixed with pitch. áwiyaaniyayik sapátwa ‘make him a salve on the way’. See also ɨlɨ́k.

Measurement. áwinawišaaš sapat̓ax̣ináwitna ‘I’m trying the measurement’.

Kite. [NE šapáwaax̣ʷaamit.]

Pacifier, nipple on a bottle; zipper.

Pump car (on the railroad). sapawt̓wɨtkníki pawínax̣ana tamaypx̣łáyaw tkʷátatyaw ‘they used to go grocery shopping to Arlington with a little pump car’. [WS waalak̓itiłá; NE sapáwtk̓ʷat.]

Fish trap, round and movable fishtrap. patamalúux̣ana ttɨx̣šmí aníyi sapáxaluut̓as ‘they used to put the willow fish trap in the water’. See also nax̣anáš. [WS sapáx̣ʷluus; NP /tuqlíks/.]

Defintion:

Pilot Rock, Oregon; Birch Creek at Pilot Rock.

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Examples:

sapaxikasłá ‘Pilot Rocker’.

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Also called Wiłúunp.

Willow fish trap. paˀaníx̣ana sapáxikas ‘they used to make fish traps’. Also sapáxaluut̓as.

Fish weir. Hunn 1990:122 [NW sapáx̣ʷliis (Jacobs 1929:184:19–20; 221:11).]

Fishing scaffold. Hunn 1990:122 See wápyaš.

Root cookie, a tiny biscuit made from x̣áwš or lúukš or both (also mámɨn, pank̓ú). Distinct from ɨpá ‘root loaf’. It is dried in the sun. Also pronounced sapk̓íca. ku paˀaníx̣ana sapk̓ísa ku kʷnáx̣i papšátax̣ana ‘and they used to make root cookies and put them in that same bag’; isapk̓úsiyaas ƛ̓áax̣ʷ sapk̓ísa ‘he cheated me out of all the root cookies’; apápki aníyi iwá sapk̓íca ‘the root cake is made with the hand’. Also called sapɨ́l. [N saplɨ́l; Y sapk̓tɨ́t; NP /capk̓ícay/.]

Bag, carrying bag, any kind of bag, woman’s handbag, purse. kuš paˀaníyayiya sápk̓ukt kskɨ́s k̓pɨtłimá ‘and they made me a little beaded bag’. [WS sámk̓ukt; NP /ˀsp̓álq/; /ˀ´tet̓es/.]

Cheater; joker (in cards). sapk̓usiłanmí áwa kákya pamtá ‘toad is the devil’s animal’. [NW saptayakłá, ičlaakłá; NP /cepk̓ucwiyeˀwet(u)/.]

Dumpling. [NP weycélmen.]

Biscuits made out of roots (x̣áwš, lúukš), root cookies with meat or deer fat. [Cf. Y saplɨ́l ‘bread, flour, dough’ from Jargon Beavert & Hargus (2009).]