Part of Speech: noun

Definition:

Valuable item, treasure, wealth.

Examples:

1. apam imáy łq̓íwišana inmíki wɨšaaníktki ‘you who were playing with my treasure’;
2. ayáyatnaš wá wɨšaaníkt ‘my treasure is beautiful’;
3. ƛ̓áax̣ʷna naamí wɨšaaníkt iwáta táani líitliitpa ‘all our treasures should be put away in storage’.

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[NP /quˀíswit/.]

Newborn. wɨštáymat miyánaš ‘newborn child’.

Raft. pawšanínx̣ana wánapa paláwyalax̣ana wɨt̓áki ‘they would row around in the river fishing by boat’. [NP /wt̓e/.]

Homebody, stay-at-home. N but used.

Red osier dogwood, Cornus sericea. [NE wɨwɨ́n; NW ɨwɨ́n; Y wɨ́n; NP /p̓ip̓lác/.]

Foot, leg, paw. páyunaš kʷíya wɨx̣á ‘I hurt my leg’; páyu ákʷiya wɨx̣á ‘he hurt his foot’; ƛ̓ɨ́k ikʷíya wɨx̣á ‘he broke his leg’; kumataš wɨx̣á wɨ́šayčta payúwi ‘and your feet will become sick’; nč̓ínč̓i wɨx̣á ‘big feet’; mítični wɨx̣á ‘sole’; káatnam wɨx̣á (waxalxalí) ‘daddy long-legs’; wɨx̣áwx̣a ‘paw’; wɨx̣ánč̓i ‘big toe’; wɨx̣aní ‘having feet, footed, legged’; wɨx̣akíil ‘on foot’; wɨx̣ákƛakƛa ‘toes’; wɨx̣álaymut ‘little toe’; wɨx̣ap̓náy ‘heel’. [NP /ˀx̣we/ ‘foot’; /weyuk/ ‘leg’; /ˀx̣wetekey/ ~ /ˀx̣wet´x̣tey/ ‘sole’; /wayac̓ynwáyac̓yn/ ‘daddy long-legs’.]

Toes. [NP ˀex̣wettáalam /ˀx̣wet-tálam/.]

Little toe. [NP ˀex̣wetláymiwt /ˀx̣wet-laymwt/.]

Wishram (Spearfish), Washington. Oblique varies dialectally: Wɨ́šx̣aa or Wɨ́šx̣am. Wɨ́šx̣amma pawá ‘they are Wishrams’; pawačá Wɨ́šx̣aama ‘they were Wishrams’; Wɨ́šx̣amkni pawá ‘they are from Wishram’; ku itkʷapaničášana K̓álwaš Wɨšx̣aamíkni ‘and Colwash signed (the Treaty) from Spearfish’; Wɨšx̣aamí sɨ́nwit ‘the Wishram language’. [Wishram nixlúidix.]

Big toe. [NP /ˀx̣wettéq̓is/.]

Heel (on foot or shoe). See awx̣ap̓náy.

Centipede, millipede, Chilopoda.

Little feet, paw. wáyx̣tik wɨx̣áwx̣aski ‘run with your little foot’ (said to little children).

Abalone, abalone shell, Haliotis spp. [NE šalx̣íˀš; WS íciwas; NP /ˀstp̓i/.]

Abalone. The legendary character. Wɨx̣inšyaynmí Łp̓úł ‘place right after the break hill at Prosser, Washington’ (Thomas Morning Owl).

Throwing stick, atlatl.