4,794 terms are nouns

Brother

pyáp ‘older brother’; naamí pyáp ‘our Elder Brother (referring to the Creator)’; ɨsx̣ɨ́p ‘man’s younger brother’; páyčt ‘woman’s younger brother’; x̣áy ‘man’s brother or male cousin, man’s male friend’; tax̣ɨ́ntway ‘younger opposite sex sibling’.

Brother-in-law

miyú ‘man’s wife’s brother’.

Brush

ptɨ́n ‘bushes, brushy area, vegetation’; čáatt ‘thicket’; yáˀik̓ukt ‘brush piled up by water’; k̓ɨštɨ́n ikiiktpamá ‘toothbrush’; twanptpamá ‘hair brush’.

Bubbly

p̓úšɨm ‘foam, bubbly water, soap, beer’.

Buck

yukaasíns ‘antlered buck’; kƛáa ‘spike buck’; áswan ‘mule deer spike buck’.

Buckeroo Creek

patánton ‘Buckeroo Creek, on Umatilla Reservation’.

Bucket

tkʷsáy ‘bowl, vessel, cup’; čawatat̓áwas ‘vessel for fetching water’.

Buckhorn Camp

pawsk̓ukáwas (place in the Johnson Creek Restoration Area on the Umatilla Reservation near “Picnic Grounds”).

Buckskin

sk̓ɨ́msk̓ɨm; wapčíyaš ‘buckskin used to dress bodies’; pláš wapčíyaš ~ pláš ímiiki apɨ́x̣ ~ pláš ímiiki ‘white buckskin’.

Buckwheat

pɨšx̣wáakuł ‘Japanese buckwheat, Fagopyrum esculentum‘.

Bud

palpálp ‘flower buds’.

Buffalo

músmuscɨn ~ cúułɨm ‘cattle, cow; bison, Bison bison‘.

Bug

tál ‘a small brown insect that sings when the chokecherries are ripening’; talyáy (the legendary character); támšɨlpi kákya ~ q̓táat támšɨlpi wáwnakʷšaš ‘ladybug (Coccinellidae)’; tuˀúk ~ tuˀuklí ‘stink bug (Pentatomidae)’; šapačuut̓ałá ‘the insect that makes foam on the cous stems’; q̓púłq̓puł ‘small black species of bug’; k̓píitk̓piit ~ pinawaƛ̓iyawiłá ‘sow bug, Armadillidium spp.’.

Building

níit ‘house’.

Bull

mɨq̓ɨ́x̣ni taláyi ‘brahma bull’; taláyi ‘stallion, bull’; wanpt̓áwas ~ wanpáwas ‘radio, stereo, bull horn’.

Bullet

ílapat; wiyálpas.

Bullfrog

yuułá ‘American bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana‘.

Bullhead

See sculpin.

Bullsnake

pyúuyax̣ (also nč̓í pyúš ‘big snake’) ‘Pituophis catenifer sayi‘ (also ‘Pacific gopher snake, P. catenifer catenifer‘).

Bulrush

tk̓ú ‘common tule, hardstem bulrush, Schoenoplectus acutus‘.