4,791 terms are nouns

lawyalałá

Fisherman. [NP /lawyalanaw̓at(o)/.]

lawyalatpamá

Fishing platform, fishing station. níix̣ áwa pɨnmíin lawyalatpamá ‘they have a good fishing station’. [NP láwyalaniwaas /láwyalan-nwees/.]

lax̣piłá

One who treat or heals (with shamanic powers). [NP /twetiwiyew̓et(u)/.]

lax̣tiłá

Cry baby. tamawɨ́lam wá lax̣tiłá ‘you’re too much a cry baby’. [NP p̓ix̣łá; NP /wiinew̓et(u)/.]

láx̣yaawit

Tuberculosis. [NP /tel̓úx̣wit/.]

lax̣ʷayx̣łá

One who gets overheated. lax̣ʷayx̣łáyi ‘have the flu’.

lax̣ʷayx̣łáyit

Flu.

láx̣ʷayx̣t

Lehman Hot Springs. “There was a name for it but I can’t remember.”

-laykɨl

Along, near. Also -laykan. ɨščɨ́tlaykɨl ‘along the road’; čúušlaykan ‘along the river’; watámlaykan ‘by the lake’; ptɨ́nlaykan ‘near the brush, bushes’. See also -páyn. [NP /-laykn/.]

láymut

Youngest. láymut áwa páp ‘it’s his youngest daughter’; apáplaymut ‘little finger’; tkʷáplaymut ‘little finger’; wɨx̣álaymut ‘little toe’. [NP laymíwt /laym´wt/; cf. náymu ‘relative’.]

lɨ́ca

Man’s younger sister. Vocative. Also lɨ́ča. See áyc. [NP /qni/.]

lišáal

Shawl. ášapaˀutpɨnk lišáalki ‘wrap the shawl around her shoulders!’; pináˀutpša lišáalki ‘she is putting a shawl around her shoulders’; pináwatišak lišáalki ‘wrap a shawl around your waist!’; wátišani iwačá lišáal ‘the shawl was around her waist’. [Jargon, from French le châle, ultimately from Persian .]

líitliit

A little shack, a bunch of little shacks. [WS also lisálisa; N ɨlíitɨliit.]

likúuk

Chicken, Gallus gallus. Also wašwášnu. [French les coqs.]

liláwlilaw

Bay horse with white belly.

limíil

Mule, donkey. Also mulá. [Jargon, from French la mule. ]

limitú

Sheep, Ovis aries. Also lamitú, šíip. [Jargon, from French le mouton.]

lipwáa

Peas. Also lapwáa. [NP katamnowáakoˀs (cf. katámno ‘hackberries, Celtis douglasii‘); Jargon, from French les pois.]

lisáak

Sack, sacking, burlap. paˀíƛ̓ɨmux̣ix̣ana lisáaki ‘they would cover it over with burlap’. [Jargon, from French le sac, ultimately from Hebrew קַשׂ.]

líya

Younger sister! Vocative. Said by a woman. See ɨsíp. [NP /ˀyi/.]