Part of Speech: noun

Marrow, bone marrow. itwáyča tápu ‘he poked out the marrow’; tapuwáakuł ‘macaroni’. [NP /tepul/.]

Northern pocket gopher, Thomomys talpoides.

Molehill. ɨmimí tápunaytt ‘molehill’.

Macaroni.

Dark bay horse, palomino. Also kawxkáwx. [NP /taqowáqoˀs/.]

Hat, cap. áwɨnpayik ímpaysaan táqmaał ‘get your little brother’s cap’; twatíwit táqmaał ‘power hat’ (worn during a healing ceremony); táqmaałi ‘wear a hat’. [NP /táqmaał/; Klamath daqmil; from Jargon.]

Saddle cinch. Also pronounced tak̓páwas. [NP /ˀlóot̓ayn/.]

White Bluffs, edge of Hanford Reach. Bruce Rigsby.

“The Moses Language name for White Bluffs. It means ‘still water’ wisíix̣ čúuš. The water looks like it is still there [because it’s deep?]. [Relander 1956:303 says it’s the name of the village there].” Bruce Rigsby.

Snake River village near Parker, just upstream from Wawyuk̓kmá. BR.

Common merganser, Mergus merganser. [Cf. NP /tastas/ ‘white female duck; Pacific loon’.]

Band-winged grasshopper (Oedipodinae). [WS tɨ́x̣tx̣; NP /t̓qt̓q/ “this name is applied to that variety of grasshopper which flies with a crackling stridulation” (Phinney 1934:113:1).]

Bathroom. mánmaš wá tawˀattpamá ‘where is your bathroom?’.

Bathroom. mɨná iwá tawˀat̓áwas ‘where is the bathroom?’.

Blalock Canyon, Oregon.

Sagebrush, Artemisia tridentata; sometimes applied to rabbit brush, Chrysothamnus spp. They used to drink sagebrush tea for a cold. Sage was also burnt as insense (mostly by the Walla Wallas and at Priest Rapids). áwna áwaqitša tawšáan płɨ́x̣ay ‘now we are looking for sagebrush for medicine’ (sagebrush was used as a cold medicine). [NP /qmqm/ ‘sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata); gray rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus)’.]

Touchet, Washington.

Stick used in stick-game.

Low sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula); silver sagebrush (A. cana); scabland Sagebrush (A. rigida); threetip sagebrush (A. tripartita). See tawšá.

Roasting spit. [NP /taˀc´way/.]