4,791 terms are nouns

wiwnúšway

Huckleberry bush, a single clump of huckleberries. Also wiwnúwaaš. [NP /cemitk-s´way/.]

wixalxalí

Spider. Also wɨxalxalíya, xalxalúya. káatlam wɨx̣á waxalxalí ‘daddy long-legs, harvestmen (Opiliones)’. [NW also xalxalí; NP /x̣elx̣elúuye/; /wayac̓ynwáyac̓yn/ ‘harvestmen (Opiliones)’.]

wixalxalinmí

Douglas’ dustymaiden, Chaenactis douglasii. Also waxalxalipamá.

Wixalxalíya

Spider, the legendary character. Wɨxalxalíyanɨmš ipɨ́tyana ‘Spider bit me’; wɨxalxalíyama ‘the spiders (usually excluding the black widow – tíšpun)’.

wixulxulí

Sack, burlap type sack, gunny sack. ipák̓ukša waskúna wixulxulípa ‘he is jigging the wheat down in the gunny sack’; pasapátk̓ulikta wixulxulípa ‘they will wrap it in burlap’; wíxulxuliki pawɨ́npša k̓usik̓usinmí tkʷátat ‘they get their dog food by the sack’. [Y wix̣alx̣alí lisáak (e.g., ‘spider’s sack’); NP /cépx̣eˀepiˀns/; cf. Y wix̣ulx̣ulí ‘canvas’.]

wix̣uwit̓áwas

Frame on which a hide is laced. iwíx̣uwiya apɨ́x̣ wix̣uwit̓áwaspa ‘she laced the hide to the frame’.

wiyá-

Distinguished or separate within a group. wiyáłkʷi ‘a day of the week’; wiyánč̓i ‘elder within a family’; wiyáwinš ‘man among women’.

wiyáˀuyit

Going first, preceding.

wiyačaquukáwas

Reins. [NP /nkéˀnikeˀs/; /nkátlqaˀs/.]

wiyáčiyawt

Loneliness, sadness, melancholy, lonesome. kʷnášta kú ín wá čikúuk páyu wiyáčiyawt ‘I then am very lonesome there today’. [NW kkáwt; tilláapin /tillápnt/.]

wiyákʷštikt

Error, mistake, wrong, mischief. ana kú pináˀilwiya ana k̓ʷapɨ́n áwača pɨnmíin wiyákʷštikt aw kú páčax̣ɨlpayiya paanáy ɨščɨ́t naamíyin aniłáyin ‘when he confessed his error then our Creator opened the way for him’; áwaƛ̓awišaaš inmína aniłáan iwáwnayitaaš ína wiyákʷštikt ‘I’m asking my Maker to forgive my sins’. [NP /wepsiméywit/; qepsiˀíswit /qpsiˀswit/.]

Wiyalč̓iyamá

Crow Butte. Place across from Boardman, Oregon. áwna x̣ɨ́twayyaykša Wiyalč̓iyamáyaw ‘now we’re going visiting at Crow Butte’.

wiyálpas

Bullet. naknúwitapam wiyálpas čáwpam yalmílk áwx̣ita ‘you should take care of your bullets, don’t just toss them around any old which way’. [NP /cép/.]

wiyáłkʷi

Day of the week, the days of the week.

wiyanawiłá

Visitor. ášapatkʷatax̣aataš wiyanawiłáaman ‘we feed the visitors’. [NP /payn̓at(o)/; ˀistúk̓es /ˀstk̓ʷes/.]

wiyánč̓i

Definiition:

Leader of a group, elder within a family.


Examples:

  1. iwá wiyánč̓i sulčasmaamí ‘he is the officer of the army’;
  2. ku kúuk páˀɨnna kʷiiní wiyánč̓iin ‘and then that officer told them’.

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[NP wiyáataq̓ismiyoox̣at /wyátaq̓ismyoox̣at(o)/.]

wiyaninłá

Traveler, wanderer. [NP /wskeˀenew̓et(u)/.]

wiyanintpamá

Pertinent to traveling around. ku k̓ʷapɨ́n iwá ƛ̓áax̣ʷ tananmaamí wiyanintpamá ‘and all the aforementioned is pertinent to the traveling around of the Indians’.

wiyapnít

Elk, bull elk. See wawúkya.

wiyásklikt

Turning, turn, path of the sun through the sky, day.