Part of Speech: noun

Unidentified place name from somewhere between the Umatilla Reservation and Celilo.

The sound of thunder.

Pacific mole, Scapanus orarius. Also ɨmí.

Canadian lynx, Lynx canadensis. [WS & NW úup̓uup; RC pč̓mwáakuł; NP /w´pwp/.]

First. ínx̣uš ‘I first’; ímx̣uš ‘you first’; pɨ́nx̣uš ‘he, she, it first’; napiiníx̣uš ‘we two first’; pinátamasklikɨnx̣a núsuxx̣uš ‘the salmon turns itself around first (appears first)’. [NP /=q̓oˀc/.]

Pillow.

Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus); American pika (Ochotona princeps). [NE púux̣c; WS č̓íit; NW lukáš; Y č̓íin; PS pálx̣c; NP /p´lx̣c/.]

Bluff. áw ináša x̣úupnit ‘now the bluff has sounded (said when it is going to warm up and the snow is about to go off and the water about to come down the creek)’.

Shale. [NP /ˀuuyikem/.]

Raven, Corvus corax. [NP /qoqoq/.]

Brook, ravine, canyon. Also x̣ɨwɨ́š. x̣ɨwúšpa pawá Wawatáwyama ‘the antelope are in a canyon’. [NP /s´qan/ ~ /sqan/; x̣ɨwúš likely related sound symbolically to qɨwíił ‘open, clear’; q̓mɨ́ł ‘cliff’; q̓míił ‘crevice’; ‘brook, ravine, canyon’.]

Whistle. x̣ʷaamanmí pipšmí xʷiittpamá ‘eagle bone whistle’.

Dogtooth fawn lily, Erythronium grandiflorum.

Old man. xʷɨ́saat iwiyánawiya ‘an old man arrived’; páq̓inušana kʷiiní xʷɨ́saatin ‘that old man saw him’; pawiyánawiya xʷsaatúwin ‘the two old men arrived’; xʷsaatuwinamí áwa ‘it’s the two old men’s’; áq̓inušanaaš xʷsaatúwinaman ‘I saw the two old men’; čáynač xʷɨ́saat ‘newly married old man’; xʷsaatúma ‘old men’; xʷsáatwi ‘grow older’ (said of a man). [NE xʷɨ́sanat; axʷsaatúma (pl.); NP /qíiwn/; cf. NP /qʷ´salat/ ‘male mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus‘.]

Golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos. x̣ʷaamanmí wáptas ‘eagle feather’; x̣ʷaamanmí púkła ‘eagle plume’. [WS & N x̣ʷayamá; NP /weptes/.]