Rose, rose bush, rose wood, Rosa gymnocarpa (also R. nutkana, R. woodsii). The stems are boiled and used for washing out the house after someone has died. A tea from rose root is used for diarrhea. ɨšk̓apášwayki paˀaníx̣a k̓alk̓alípš ‘they make the cradleboard bow with rose’; ku iwá płɨ́x̣ ɨšk̓apášway ‘and the rose is a medicine’; paˀaníx̣ana čúuš šk̓apášwayki pamuláytɨnx̣ana íix̣tay wáaš ‘they used to make a tea with wild rose for washing the sacred ground’; płɨ́x̣ iwá šk̓apášway ‘rose is a medicine’; šk̓apášwayki paˀaníx̣a k̓alk̓alípš ‘they make the cradleboard bow with rose’; pt̓x̣anupamá šk̓apášway ‘mountain rose’; iwapác̓ɨmka šk̓apášwayna ‘he touched the sharp rose bush’; šk̓apašwaynmí mɨ́c̓ay ‘rose root’. [NW tamšáašu; NP /tamsas/.]
šk̓áwšk̓aw
Dwarf or Cascade Oregon grape, Mahonia nervosa.
šɨk̓ɨmšwáakuł
Vine maple (Acer circinatum); Douglas maple (Acer glabrum var. douglasii). Hunn 1979 See twanúwaaš.
Oak
c̓uníps ‘Oregon white oak, Quercus garryana‘ (also, kapɨ́naaš ‘digger source’).
Oar
wax̣uutpamá ‘paddle’.
šk̓ulúlapt
Whirlwind. [NP /splis/.]
Obedient
paykłá ‘one who listens, well behaved one’.
Obsidian
čúkš.
Obviative
pɨ́n- (obviative possessor of kinship terms).
Occupation
kútkut ‘work’; qqaanáyt ‘business, industry, activity’.
Occurrence
wɨ́šayčt ‘event, happening, birth, home’.
Ocean
atáčuuš ‘sea’.
Ocean-spray
pɨƛwayčtpamá ‘ironwood, Holodiscus discolor‘. Also called, tawc̓x̣tpamá tawtnúk ‘laxitive medicine’.
Ochre
luc̓á šápɨnčaš ‘red paint’.
O’clock
nɨkní ‘turning, hour, time’; nápt nɨkní ‘two o’clock’.
šɨ́lkapaaš
Eyebrow. [NP cilímtex̣tey /cl´mtex̣tey/.]
šɨlɨ́m
Cascara, bearberry, chittam, Rhamnus purshiana. paˀaníx̣ana šɨlɨmmí psá tawc̓xtpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘they used to make a diarrhea medicine from chittam bark’; šɨlɨmmí psá ‘cascara bark’. [WS át̓itaaš; NP /slm/; perhaps related sound symbolically to šnɨ́m (NP /ssnm/) ‘hawthorn’.]