spílya ‘Canis latrans‘; spilyaspílya ~ spilyáspilya ‘small form coyote’; Spilyáy ‘Coyote’ (legendary character); spilyaynmí tamánwit ‘Coyote’s law’.
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Coyote-willow
puˀúx̣puˀux̣ttɨ́x̣š ‘Salix exigua‘.
Legend
walsáycas ‘Coyote story’.
Spilyáy
Coyote, the legendary character. iwačá wapsúx Spilyáy ku pakúuk iwačá paláy ‘Coyote was smart and sometimes he ws stupid’; Spilyáy itamáynačɨnx̣ana áčašpa ku qáayk iqáq̓inunx̣ana ‘Coyote would put [buttercups] in his eyes and suddenly he would see the light’; spilyaynmí tamánwit ‘Coyote’s law’; spilyaynmí áčaš ‘buttercups, contact lenses’; Spilyáywi ‘act like Coyote, copy or mimic’. [NP /ˀiceyéye/; niséew̓eynuu (sometimes in myth texts).]
spilyaspílya
Small form coyote. Also pronounced spilyáspilya. [NP /ˀicayáyaqan/ ‘young coyote’.]
Story
wálsayc ‘tell Coyote story’.
Mimic
Spilyáywi ‘act like Coyote’.
-áy
Personifier. Used with legendary characters. Spilyáy ‘Coyote’; cf. spílya ‘coyote’. See -yáy.
wawtk̓iwiłá
Trickster. wawtk̓iwiłá iwačá Spilyáy ‘Coyote was a trickter’.
Story
tɨmnanáx̣t ‘narrative, account, recollection’; walsáycas ‘legendary, Coyote story’.
Imitate
Spilyáywi ‘act like Coyote, copy or mimic others’.
Copy
Spilyáywi ‘act like Coyote, copy or mimic others’.
walsáycas
Legend, Coyote story. walsáycas iwɨ́šayčɨnx̣a ánɨm ana kú ipúuynx̣a ‘Coyote stories happen in winter when it snows’; k̓ʷałámataš áw wiláalakʷa walsáycas ‘gladly now I left you the story’. [WS walsákas; K wat̓ít̓aš; Y walsácas ‘legendary character’.]
spílya
Coyote, Canis latrans. [NP /ˀiceyéye/, likely Shoshoni loan where the word for ‘coyote’ is based on a verb stem, ˀisa, meaning ‘to tell a lie’. Aoki 1994:1007. Sahaptin spílya appears to be a Salish loan.]
tk̓ʷátunik
Walk upriver, walk upstream. itk̓ʷátunika Spilyáy ‘Coyote walked up the river’; itk̓ʷátunikša ‘he’s walking up the river’; áw itk̓ʷátunikšana Spilyáy ‘now Coyote was walking upriver’ (a common beginning of stories – “he always went upriver, never downriver”). [NP /ˀpsqiléhyek/.]
wánaši
Toward the river. Spilyáy iwínaša wánaši ‘Coyote is going toward the river’.
Spilyáywi
Act like Coyote, copy or mimic others. paSpilyáywiša ‘they are copying’; Spilyáywišaaš paamiyawáy ‘I’m acting Coyotely like them’; paSpilyáywiša ana kúuš pawáašax̣a náx̣špa tiičámpa ‘they are imitating the way they dance on another reservation’.
tamánwiš
Law. spilyaynɨmí tamánwiš ‘Coyote’s law’ (Jacobs 1929:225:9–10).
tk̓ʷáypx̣
Walk downstream. itk̓ʷáypx̣na ‘he walked downstream’; čáw mún itk̓ʷáypx̣a Spilyáy ‘Coyote never walked downstream’. [NP /ˀpsq´wewiti/.]
patíšpatiš
Limbs, twig. x̣ʷɨ́łx̣ʷłna wɨx̣á pánawnɨmx̣ayiya Spilyáyin patíšpatiški ‘Coyote fixed meadowlark’s leg with a twig’. [NP /peticpétic/.]