tkníni ~ lúup ~ wáswas ~ wátisas ‘string, rope’; wisxáwas ‘string, thread, twine, yarn’.
Student
Stump
áx̣š ‘base of tree, tree roots’; šáx̣ƛ̓ki ílukas ~ šáx̣ƛ̓ki pátaat ‘stump, cut off tree’.
Sturgeon
wílaps ‘Pacific or white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus‘.
Stye
sɨlk̓úk̓u.
Subalpine
patátuy ‘fir boughs, subalpine fir, Abies lasiocarpa‘.
Submerging
lɨk̓ʷít ‘covering up’.
Successor
tamanawayčłá.
Sucker
x̣ʷɨ́n ‘large-scale sucker, Catostomus macrocheilus‘; yáykʷ ‘bridgelip sucker, C. columbianus‘.
Suffering
tɨmnanč̓íwit ‘tolerance, endurance’.
Sugar
šúuka; ic̓ikáwas; c̓í ‘sweet; sugar’.
Suicide
pináˀiƛ̓iyawit.
Suitcase
psatanáwas ‘bag, valise, gunny sack, chest of drawers’.
Sumac
tɨntɨ́t ‘smooth sumac, Rhus glabra‘.
Summer
šátɨm.
Summit
lák̓itit ‘top of hill or mountain’.
Sun
- án ‘sun’;
- Anyáy ‘Sun’ (legendary character);
- wiyásklikt ‘turning, turn, path of the sun through the sky, day’.
Sunday
pačwáywit.
Sunflower
pášx̣aš ‘Carey’s balsamroot, Balsamorhiza careyana‘; ‘arrowleaf balsamroot, B. sagittata‘; p̓líwa ‘higher altitude sunflowers (‘Hooker’s balsamroot, B. hookeri‘; ‘hoary balsamroot, B. incana‘; ‘toothed balsamroot, B. serrata‘); činúkityaw tawtnúk ‘Cusick’s sunflower, Helianthus cusickii‘; pašx̣ašwáakuł ‘domestic sunflower, Helianthus annuus‘.
Sunrise
tináytt ‘sunrise, moonrise, east’; x̣áyx̣t ‘dawning, morning, east’.