Part of Speech: noun

Feather religion. [Y wíisklikt.]

Eddy, whirlpool. [NP /capahik̓áyit/.]

A turn to sing. kʷɨ́nimataš wámš wáatamayčt ‘it’s your turn to sing from that end’.

Payment. maynípam tq̓íx̣ša wášatit ‘how are you wanting the payment?’; páyšnam kʷíyayiša wáq̓iš kunam čáw iwɨ́npayita wášatit ‘should you owe me he won’t get your payment’. [NP /wécetit/.]

Belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon). See also šáx̣šax̣. [NW t̓úlulx̣ʷ; NP /t̓ululxʷ/.]

Mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus. wáaw iláˀayčɨnx̣a ana kúuš k̓usik̓úsi ‘mountain goats sit on their haunches like a dog’. Also called c̓ax̣íšx̣iš. Jacobs 1937:10.2.3, pg. 16 [RC wawyá; NP /c̓ax̣ísx̣is/.]

Rapids. wášawiitpanam átamaluuta sapáx̣aluut̓as ‘put your basket trap in the water at the rapids’.

Stick presented from the man’s side at the wedding trade to be redeemed as a horse or cow; goods traded on the man’s side at the wedding trade. ana kʷaaná patáwaničɨnx̣ana wáawx̣i ‘that which they used to call the waawxi‘.

Goods traded on the man’s side at the wedding trade. [Y wíiwx̣iš; wíiwx̣it ‘dowry ceremony’.]

Need, poverty, destitution, hard times. ƛ̓áax̣ʷ šín čikúuk iwaqítša kútkutna ača iwá wáayawit ‘everybody today is looking for work because there is hard times’. [NP /hiw̓ítwet/.]

Thimble. Also wisxtpamá. [WS wásk̓alay; NP /wex̣´mkeˀs/.]

The Dalles, Oregon.

Axe, hatchet, single blade ax. ku iwɨ́npa wacúqt ku iwáx̣ƛ̓ka pátaat ‘and he grabbed an axe and chopped the tree’. [NP /wáwyan̓as/; cf. NP wesúqt /wes´qʷt/ ‘tree stump’ (Aoki 1994:663).]

A type of green, dry bean (“they look like little axes”). Also called wacúqtwacuqt.

Saddle horn. [NP wacwácno /wcwcno/.]

Lock; nipple. sapawac̓aakáwas ‘pacifier, nipple on a bottle; zipper’. [NP /wec̓éˀkeˀs/ ‘hammer, key, lock’.]

Lock, padlock.

Young birds with no feathers.

Fishing pole. Millstein 1990b; Hunn 1990:122 [Y wawásway; /waw̓alps´way/.]

Willow Creek, Oregon, between Boardman and Arlington. Thomas Morning Owl.