Part of Speech: noun

Killdeer, Charadrius vociferus. [NW tawyíit; NP /ciyítitit/.]

Cradleboard, baby board. [The dialects have variously puwat̓áwas, tamcásas, sk̓ín; NE ɨsk̓ín; NP /tikeˀs/.]

Dish, cup, plate. it̓kúkna tikáy ‘the cup broke’; tawax̣itpamá tikáy ‘ash tray’; tikaypamá ničtpamá ‘cupboard’; tq̓úx̣ni tikáy ‘chipped enamel dish’. [NP /hik̓ay/.]

Maternal grandfather; man’s daughter’s child. tíla ‘grandfather!’; natílas ‘my grandfather’; tíl ‘your grandfather’; íntil ‘my grandchild’; ímtil ‘your grandchild’; tíla ‘(his/her) grandfather; his daughter’s child’; natílasanɨms ɨ́nna ‘my grandfather told me’; natílasayin páq̓inuna ‘my grandfather saw him’; amaš šín wačá imíin tíla ‘whoever was your grandfather’; kúušx̣i inmí tíla ittáwax̣na Ímatalampa ‘in the same way my grandfather grew up at Umatilla’; čáwnaš mún q̓inúna tíla ‘I never saw my grandfather’; tilamí áwa ‘it’s his grandfather’s’; tílanɨmš iníya ‘his grandfather gave it to me’; tílayin pániya ‘your grandfather gave it to him’; tílapa iníya ‘he gave it to his grandfather’; iq̓ínušanaaš tiláp ‘your grandfather saw me’; áq̓inušanaaš tiláp ‘I saw your grandfather’; tilapmí waníčt ‘his grandfather’s name’; pínapu pawačá inmíkni tilamíkni ‘there were four from my maternal grandfather’s side’; mɨ́ł áwača x̣áyma natilasanmí ‘how many brothers did my grandfather have?’; áwača natilasanmí ašwaníyama ‘my maternal grandfather had slaves’; čí iwá ímtil ‘this is your grandchild’. [NE síla; NP /plq/; the deviant NE sound correspondence (s for t) suggests borrowing in Sahaptin: cf. Moses-Columbian ttíl̓aˀ ‘maternal grandfather’ Beavert & Hargus (2009:213).]

Woman. ku patáyax̣na tílaakina ‘and they found the woman’; watx̣ɨ́nmaš wá tílaaki ‘do you have a wife?’; iwá tílaaki páq̓pi ‘the woman is pinned (has on two feathers indicating marriage)’; ku aw kú wínšin pánix̣ana tílaakina nápt wáptas ‘and then the man would give the woman two feathers’; tílaakima ‘women’; tílaakiin ‘two women’; tílaaki púła ‘nonflowering stage of the bigseed biscuitroot, Lomatium macrocarpum‘; tilaakinút ‘without a woman’. [NW áyat; NP /ˀáyat(o)/; cf. NP tilaháma ‘man’ (“The meaning of the prefix tile or tila is not clear.” – Aoki 1994:1994:93).]

Love medicine (as used by a man).

Pants, trousers. Also sulátas. itámƛ̓aakša tílatat ‘he’s patching up his pants’. [WS tilatalí; NP /tohon/.]

Name of a dog. Jacobs 1937:34.2.3, 3.1, 4.1, pg. 85.

Blood. tilíwal áwa apápa ‘he has blood on his hand’; luc̓á iwá tilíwal ‘blood is red’; luc̓áaš wá tilíwal ‘my blood is red’; apápkni áwalaša tilíwal ‘his hand is bleeding’; tilíwalnam panáytayiša apápkni ‘they are drawing blood from your finger’; áwalaša tilíwal ‘his blood is flowing, he is bleeding’; núšnukni tilíwal ‘nose bleed’; tilíwali ‘bleed’; tiliwalwáakuł ‘beet’; tiliwalx̣í ‘bloody’. [NE ɨlúk; NW tuuníwan (Jacobs 1929:222:3); NP /kikeˀt/.]

Beet. [NP luc̓éeluc̓el /luc̓élluc̓el/.]

Paper, book, newspaper, document, marking, toilet paper. íšna ku čáw patániya ana kú čáw áwača c̓áa tímaš pɨnmiláyk̓ay šúktaš ‘he won but they didn’t give it to him because he didn’t have identification’; tkʷapaničášaša tkʷápnɨč̓iki tímašpa ‘he is putting his thumb print on the paper’; tímašpa pašapáwač̓aakša naamína sɨ́nwitna ‘they’re putting our language on paper’; hawláak tímaš ‘the heavenly book, invisible paper’ (records all our good deeds and transgressions); sapálalp̓at tímašpa ‘picture in the paper’; inaq̓iyáł tímaš ‘homework’; timašpamá ‘wastebasket’. [NP /tím̓es/.]

Pertaining to paper, wastebasket. átamawaalatak timašpamáyaw tkʷsáyyaw ‘throw it in the wastebasket!’; timašpamá wápas sáptay ‘school back pack’.

Marking, design. timatpamá ‘branding iron; desk’; timat̓áwas ‘pencil, pen, branding iron’. [NP tíim̓e /tím̓ent/.]

Timothy hay, Phleum pratense. Native to Europe. [NP /t´meti/; /tmeti-/.]

Branding iron; desk. [WS pac̓iilkáwas ~ timat̓áwas ɨstí ‘branding iron’; NP /tím̓en̓es kcuy/ ‘branding iron’; /tím̓enwees/ ‘desk’.]

Pen, pencil; branding iron. ku aw kú kʷná timat̓áwas pawíšapaˀaniya ‘and there then they each had their branding irons made’; čí iwá níix̣ timat̓áwas ‘this is a good pencil’. [NE timat̓úus; NP /tím̓en̓es/.]

Weft (in basket weaving). Also called x̣pɨ́t ‘ribs’.

Sunset, moonset, west. paˀaníx̣a nɨnɨ́k tináynačtpa tanánma ‘the Indians in the west prepare pine nuts’. [N tináynakt; NP /tin̓eynékt/; /tin̓éynektkn̓ikeey/ ‘west’.]

Tenino, Washington. kʷná pawačá tináynupa tanánma ánč̓a Wɨ́šx̣aamax̣i ‘there the same way again were Wishram Indians at Tenino’.

Sunrise, moonrise, east. Also anátt. [NW tinátt; NP /tin̓éhtt/; /tin̓éhttkn̓ikeey/ ‘east’.]