Canyon wren, Catherpes mexicanus. Also pronounced x̣alix̣áli. A bird that brings messages to snakes. Also taymúusya. So called because this bird sang a taunting song to rattlesnake, calling him pšná núšnu ‘shovel nose’ (Millstein 1990b). [WS yuulyúul; NP /cux̣éecux̣ee/ ‘wren’.]
xamsí
Bare-stemmed desert parsley, Lomatium nudicaule. átkʷatayix̣aataš xamsína hahán ‘we eat the top of the bare-stemmed desert parsley’; čáw mún ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a čná xamsí ‘the barestemmed desert parsley never grows here’; čáw mún pátamaniča xamsína čná Spilyáyin ‘Coyote never planted the bare-stemmed desert parsley here’; ašwaníya ‘mature stem of xamsí (Lomatium nudicaule)’. [Cf. NP /qámsit/ ‘fresh cous root, Lomatium cous‘.]
xaslú
Star. ana kú iwá c̓áac̓aa xaslú alxayxmíyaw ku ác̓aasa pɨnmíin háašt ‘when the star is close to the moon he is dying’. [Y x̣aaslú; NP /x̣c̓yu/; both languages may share a common root, *xɨs ~ *x̣ɨs, with Sahaptin suffixing -lu and Nez Perce /-ˀyu/.]
xawít
Egg yolk. [NP /silo/.]
xawit̓ál
June. xawit̓almí áwawtuka uynáapt ‘it was June 7th’. [NP /ˀisl̓ál̓/; /tustimasát̓al/.]
xawit̓álxawit̓al
April-May. [NP /qaqit̓ál/; /ˀil̓ál/.]
xáx
Maternal aunt. naxáxas ‘my aunt’. See x̣áx̣.
xaxílk̓k
Manroot, Marah oregonus. “A root that looks like a squash.” It was used as a horse medicine (for cuts), also for killing fleas on dogs, and as an eye medicine.
Vacant
níitaš ‘vacant house’.
Vacation
haywáanaykt.
Vagina
tanáy; šaˀáx̣.
Valerian
k̓ʷíya ‘Valeriana edulis‘.
Valley
wáapnit ‘place opening out into a broad valley, gentle slope’.
Valuable
wɨšaaníkt ‘valuable item, treasure, wealth’; tanwáytt ‘valuables’.
Vanilla
yaamašmí iqʷikáwas ‘vanilla leaf, Achlys triphylla‘.
Variety
kʷtɨ́n ‘species, kind’.
VCR
šapatwanat̓áwas ~ suxaaptpamá ‘videocassette recorder’; suxaapt̓áwas šapátk̓i ‘video cassette’.
xliwisá
Definition:
Ant.
Example:
ičánpaaš xliwisánɨm ‘the ant bit me’.
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[NW kluwisá.]
Vegetables
šapátwani ana k̓ʷapɨ́n ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a ‘mixed things which grow’.
Vegetation
ptɨ́n ‘brush, bushes, brushy area, bushy area, vegetation’.