Part of Speech: noun

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

Elk, bull elk. See wawúkya.

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

Spokesman for a group.

Fast food.

Noon, twelve o’clock. áw iwá wiyátk̓ukt ‘it is noon now’; áw inkníša c̓áa wiyátk̓ʷktyaw ‘it is getting close to noon’; watx̣ɨ́n pawiyánawita wiyátk̓uktpa ‘will they arrive at noon?’; wiyátk̓uktnaq̓it ‘afternoon’. [NP p̓éqin /p̓´qn-t/.]

Afternoon. pák̓u áwača čáx̣ɨlpi náptipa nɨknípa wiyátk̓uktnaq̓itpa ‘their meeting was opened at two o’clock in the afternoon’. [NP /hal´x̣p/.]

Change. wiyátunx̣it ku náx̣ašwit ‘change and challenge’. [NP wiyáatkalayn /wiyátklyn/.]

A drink for going, one for the road, travel drink (soda, tea). míšpam áwɨnpa wiyáčuut ‘did you get one for the road’; wɨnptána áw wiyáčuut ‘let’s get something to drink’.

Leader, boss. Often reduces to wiyáwat̓wi ~ wiyáwat̓i. apam wá imáy čná aníyi wiyáwat̓uy ‘you who are made leaders here’; ana pmáy pawá aníyi wiyáwat̓uy ‘they who are made leaders’; wiyáwat̓uy x̣nɨmˀuyitpamá ‘leader in the first digging’. [NP /ˀnoqtiyaˀwat(o)/.]

Planet. Thomas Morning Owl.

Time, season, opportunity, chance, events along the way. [NE wiyáwšaykt; WS & NW wiyátx̣anat; NP wiyéewc̓et /wyéwc̓et/.]

Man among women. lɨ́xstaš wá wiyáwinš ‘we have just one man’.

Overalls.

Village just downriver from níšx̣t (Paterson, Washington). ku itkʷapaničášana Šiyakát Wiyáwnatkni ‘and Shiyakát signed (the Treaty) from Wiyáwnat’.

Daily living. áp̓x̣tapam wiyáx̣ayx̣tpa wiyákʷlaawititpa naamína aniłáan ‘you should remember every day every evening our Creator’; kúušnaš ín pinášukʷasa inmípa wiyáx̣ayx̣tpa ‘that way I know myself in my daily living’; níix̣ naamí waq̓íšwit wiyáx̣ayx̣t iwá ‘our life is good’; tk̓ʷíikʷ iwačá wiyáx̣ayx̣t ‘the living was straight (moral)’. [NP wiyáakaaˀawn /wyákaaˀawnt/.]

Fearful one; jello.

Shell dress. pamáwapawax̣ana táatpaski wíyaytiki ‘they used to dress themselves up with shell dresses’; itamáx̣aapa wíyaytina ‘she put a lining in the shell dress’. [NE wiyaytí.]

Pit house, dug-out house, winter cache you can walk into, storage shed. pax̣nɨ́mɨnx̣ana tiičámna paˀíƛ̓ɨmux̣ix̣ana wɨlčí patkʷáywayčɨnx̣ana kk̓aywáki twáki ku šwíčtki paˀíƛ̓ɨmux̣ix̣ana twáan ku tiičámki pašapálk̓ʷikɨnx̣ana ku kʷná paˀílukɨnx̣ana papáčupa ílukški álaqayx̣ix̣ana ‘they used to dig the ground, they would cover the pit, lay across short poles and cover the poles with ryegrass and bury it over with earth, and there in the middle they would make a fire, their place would light up with the fire’; wɨlčí áwača pt̓ilimaamí ku áwača náx̣š wɨlčí katkaatmaamí ‘the girls had a pit house and the boys had another pit house’; wɨlčinmí níit ‘box tent, army tent’. [NP /wikées/.]

Abandoned pit house.