Part of Speech: noun

tamíčt ‘burying, burial place’.

tamalám ‘rocky bar in river, dry stream, gravel bar, rocks by a creek, pile of rocks, rocky bottom’.

šíš ‘mush, thick soup, porriage’; lakamíin ‘stew, flour thickened stew, salmon gravy’.

kukúk ‘brain; gray hair’.

cpúkux ‘Perisoreus canadensis‘.

yápaš ‘fat, grease, oil’; nusuxmí yápaš ‘salmon grease’; yápaš tútanikay ‘hair grease’.

nɨ́šx̣t ‘Sarcobatus vermiculatus‘; č̓ɨší ‘antelope brush, Purshia tridentata‘.

x̣áašwit.

lɨlúy ‘body grime, dead skin, the dirt that is rubbed off in the sweathouse’.

šapawaak̓ʷlkáwas ‘grinder, mill’; wak̓ʷlkáwas ‘meat grinder’.

tútt ‘grinding’.

kúmkum ‘salmon head or jaw cartilage, the soft gristle in the head of the salmon’.

wapaanłá ‘grizzly bear, Ursus arctos horribilis‘.

watanám (also x̣iyím).

čáynač ‘newly married man; son-in-law’.

tiičám ‘land, earth, property, place’; áwtni tiičám ‘sacred ground’; lúni tiičám ‘burnt over ground’; mɨlá tiičám ‘no good ground’; šáq̓tči tiičám ‘ploughed ground’; áypɨx̣ ‘clearing, flat ground, plains’; núwax̣am ‘burnt over ground’; sulcasmaamí tiičám ‘the veteran’s grounds’; tamášam (also called šám) ‘shallow, rocky or sandy ground’; tamicáwas ‘cemetery, burial ground’; wáaš ‘sacred ground’.

tɨ́tnu ‘Columbian ground squirrel, Urocitellus columbianus‘; c̓iiłá ~ ƛ̓iix̣łá ‘Washington ground squirrel, U. washingtoni‘; c̓iiławáakuł ‘Belding’s ground squirrel, U. beldingi‘ (also c̓iiłá; tɨ́tnu); wasápan ‘Townsend’s ground squirrel, Spermophilus townsendii‘; amɨ́t ‘golden-mantled ground squirrel, Callospermophilus lateralis‘; amɨtyáy (the legendary character); Cascade golden-mantled ground squirrel, C. saturatus‘; wáški ‘California ground squirrel, Otospermophilus beecheyi‘. See also squirrel.

sápc̓ɨmliki ~ sápƛ̓ɨmux̣i ‘common or long-leaved groundcherry, Physalis longifolia‘.

cáxcam ‘yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris‘.

q̓ɨ́x̣nu ‘sharp-tailed grouse Tympanuchus phasianellus‘; tuyá ‘dusky or blue grouse, Dendragapus obscurus‘ (also ptí); páyumš ‘sage grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus‘; wašwášnu ‘ruffed grouse, Bonasa umbellus‘ (also sapaníca); miyáwax̣ ‘spruce grouse, Falcipennis canadensis (syn. Dendragapus canadensis, Canachites canadensis)’.