4,794 terms are nouns

Bolt

wɨsak̓páwas.

Bone

pípš; pípš ɨstí ‘bone needle’; pipšmí wášɨmux̣š ‘bone necklace’; t̓ɨx̣náwas ‘bone for scraping dogbane’; alɨxmí pípš ‘wing bone’; x̣ʷaamanmí pipšmí xʷiittpamá ‘eagle bone whistle’; tápu ‘bone marrow’.

Bone-game

palyáwat ‘the bone game’; táwaxicas ‘bone game set, sticks for the stick-game, counter in the bone game, the guess stick’; łkmá ‘stick-game bone’; pláš łkmá ‘white bone (the right bone)’; walák̓iki łkmá ‘bone with the mark (the wrong bone)’; łtúwitas ‘kick stick in the bone game’; tkʷáywanpt ‘the bone-game song’.

Book

tímaš ‘paper, book’; hawláak tímaš ‘the invisible book (records our deeds good and bad)’.

Boot

wakmuykłaamí wɨłq̓ám ‘cowboy boots’.

Booty

tiyánpš ‘that which is taken away, plunder’.

Booze

mɨlá čúut ‘bad drink, liquor’.

Boss

miyúux̣ ‘chief’; amíyuux̣ma ‘bosses, chiefs’; wiyáwat̓uy ‘leader’.

Bottle

laputáy.

Bottom

ít̓it ‘buttocks, stern (of a canoe)’; k̓íyas ‘rear end’; aláy ‘low place, toward water, bottom of valley, shore, beach’.

Bough

patátuy ‘fir boughs’.

Bow

twint̓áwas (also qaláasu) ‘bow for shooting arrows’; twínpaš ‘rifle, bow’; k̓alk̓alípš ‘cradleboard bow’.

Bowl

k̓úulk; k̓úulk aníyi ttɨx̣šmí ‘bowl made of willow’; k̓púł ~ tutt̓áwas ‘bowl for pounding, mortar’; amúˀmuwit ‘knick-knack, sugar bowl’; šuukapamá ‘sugar bowl’; k̓úlk̓ulk ~ k̓úulɨl ‘depression in ground (natural or man made land formation)’.

Box

púuks.

Boxer

papƛ̓kłá ‘boxer, pugilist’.

Boy

áswan; kátkaatma ‘boys’; kátkaatin ‘two boys’; tkʷaynpłá ‘hunter, man, baby boy’.

kʷtɨ́n

Species, variety, that kind. kʷtɨ́nnaš tq̓íx̣ša ‘I want that kind’; tq̓íx̣nataš wá kʷtɨ́n tkʷátat ƛ̓áax̣ʷ ‘all our food is the irreplacible kind’. [NW kʷɨtɨ́nk.]

Bracelet

waplálaš; ɨstíyaas ~ wáwk̓itš ‘metal bracelet’.

Bracken

pak̓ʷɨnktpamá ‘bracken fern, Pteridium aquilinum‘.

Brahma

mɨq̓ɨ́x̣ni; mɨq̓ɨ́x̣ni taláyi ‘brahma bull’.