4,794 terms are nouns

Pancake

šapáx̣awaƛ̓aki ~ šapax̣awaƛ̓akí.

Pants

sulátas ~ tílatat ‘leggings, trousers’; wilkyakí ‘mens leggings’; lamtmí sulátas ‘blue jeans’.

Paper

tímaš ‘paper, book, newspaper, document, marking, toilet paper’; šapaluluukt̓áwas ‘sandpaper’; sxʷyat̓at̓áwas ‘toilet paper’; čalútimaš ‘design (especially “on paper”)’.

Papoose

puwat̓áwas ~ sk̓ín ~ tamcásas ‘cradleboard, baby board’.

Parade

súnknikt; tútanknikt ‘horse parade, parade with regalia’.

Parasol

pašq̓išit̓áwas ‘umbrella’.

Parfleche

šaptákay ‘Indian trunk’.

Parker’s Well

paˀlíin ‘place just past Deadman’s Pass on Umatilla Reservation’.

Parsley

See desert parsley.

Parsnip

íiš ‘cow-parsnip, Heracleum maximum (syn. H. lanatum)’ (also called, tx̣ú); šyapɨ́špš ‘Northern Indian parsnip, Cymopterus terebinthinus var. foeniculaceum‘.

Part

walák̓uykt ‘tying in a knot, portion’; mɨ́taat walák̓uykt ‘three parts’; twánkapat ‘parting of the hair’.

Partition

páx̣ƛ̓kt ‘divider, compartment, room beyond a partition’.

Partner

yalɨ́pt ‘trading partner’.

Pasco

pašx̣ú ‘Pasco, Washington’. Also pɨsxú.

Pastry

c̓iłimá.

tk̓ú

Origin:

Thought to be related to tk̓ʷíikʷ because they are straight.


Definition:

Tule, Schoenoplectus acutus; tule mat, lined straight tule mat.


Examples:

  1. tk̓ú ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a ana kʷɨ́nki aníx̣a naamí áwšnitš tamátačay ‘tules grow with which we make our throw down eating mats’;
  2. ku taxʷɨ́ski paˀaníx̣ana tk̓úna pawáp̓ax̣ana ‘and they used to use dogbane to weave the tules together’;
  3. tk̓unmí paˀaníx̣ana ílax̣yawitay x̣áwšay ‘they used to prepare it of tules for drying cous’;
  4. níit aníyi tk̓unmí ‘lodge made of tule mats’;
  5. tk̓unmí k̓ʷáak níit ‘tule longhouse’;
  6. tk̓unmí tamátačay ‘tule mat table cloth’.

See more:

[NP /tk̓o/.]

tk̓ú

Echo, Oregon. tk̓úpa iwačá naamí úyit tmiyutpamá níit ‘our first Agency was at Echo’.

Patch

-aaš ‘source, place, tree, bush, source for berries’.

Patch

tamaƛ̓áakt ‘patching’.

tk̓ulí

Tent made of tules.