Throwing food to the morning. Said by Coyote when he misunderstood some word in a myth.
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tunák̓up
Step on and break. x̣ʷɨ́łx̣ʷłna wɨx̣á pátunak̓upayiya Spilyáyin ‘Coyote stepped on and broke meadowlark’s leg’. [NP /tulék̓uup/.]
tiyánaša
Arrive with noise (said at end of Coyote stories). áw tanánma patyánašašamš ‘now people are approaching noisily’.
waq̓íšwi
Revive, come to life. ku iwaq̓íšwiya Spilyáy ‘and Coyote revived’. [NP /waq̓iswi/; wáq̓iš ‘alive, awake’ plus verbalizer -wi.]
kʷáyxʷi
Dip net. ku kʷnák ákʷayxʷiya Spilyáy ‘and there Coyote dip netted’ (Jacobs 1937:29.3.1, pg. 66).
látamqatn
Lie on the back. kʷnák ilátamqatša Spilyáy ‘there Coyote is lying on his back’ (Jacobs 1937:31.13.1, pg. 73).
áčna
Common, ordinary; cf. áčna ‘merely, just, for fun’ (Jacobs 1931:268). čáw iwačá Spilyáy áčna ‘Coyote wasn’t a commoner’. [NP /wiclém/.]
-yáy
Personifier. Huliyáy ‘Wind’; Spilyáy ‘Coyote’; sɨlksɨlkyáy ‘Cricket’; talyáy ‘Little Bug’; tx̣awnayáy ‘East Wind’; Wawatawyáy ‘Antelope’; X̣ʷaamayáy ‘Eagle’. See also -ya. [NP /-yéye/.]
q̓áłała
Helmet. patáwawšpšana Spilyáyna ku áwača páx̣at q̓áłała ‘they were clubbing Coyote but he had five helmets’. [K ílk; cf. K q̓áała ‘dish’.]
x̣ʷɨ́łx̣ʷł
Meadowlark, Sturnella neglecta. x̣ʷɨ́łx̣ʷłna wɨx̣á pátunak̓upayiya Spilyáyin ‘Coyote stepped on meadowlark’s leg and broke it’; x̣ʷłx̣ʷłmí tkʷátat ‘cancer root, Orobanche uniflora‘. [NP /qʷcqʷc/.]
walsáyct
Telling a legend, Coyote story. ana kúuš paamíin áwača walsáyct ‘as it was theirs to tell the story’. [WS walsákas; N walsákt; /ttwatit/.]
púˀn
Defecate. ipúˀna ‘he defecated’; ápuˀšaaš áycmaaman ‘I am defecating my little sisters’ (said by Coyote). Possibly from English. See also c̓ɨ́x̣n. [NP /c̓´yn/.]
pawilawíix̣t
Race. Spilyáy ináx̣ašwiya pawilawíix̣tki ‘Coyote challenged [him] to a race’; pawilawíix̣t wɨłq̓ámit ‘moccasin putting on race’. Also wilawíix̣t. [NP piwlalwíiqin /pí-wlalwiqn-t/.]
ílk
Stone helmet of legend. Today might refer to any type of helmet. páx̣at pšwanmí ílk áwača spilyaynmí ‘Coyote had five stone helmets’. See also q̓áłała.
yáwaaypx̣
Float downstream. ku áyawaaypx̣a ‘and his floated downstream’; ku iyáwaaypx̣ɨma ‘and he came floating downstream’; wɨt̓ápa iyáwaaypx̣a Spilyáy ‘Coyote floated down on a raft’. [NP /ˀyéwik/.]
-tík
Nonhuman numeral classifier: All. naptík ‘both’; áw ináwnaq̓iya Spilyáy ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pax̣atík tkʷátat ‘now Coyote finished all five foods’ (Jacobs 1937:66). See also -t. [NP /-tik/.]
wánš
Thigh, upper leg. itkníšana taxʷɨ́s wánšpa ‘she’s rolling the dogbane on her thigh’; Spilyáy pinátkʷatayiya wánš ‘Coyote ate up his own thigh’. [Y ɨwánš; NP /weyuk/ ‘leg’.]
Tobacco
táwax̣; ɨlɨ́k ~ hutuhútu ‘Indian tobacco, pinemat manzanita, Arctostaphylos nevadensis‘; ‘bearberry, A. uva-ursi‘; awttpamá ‘coyote tobacco, Nicotiana attenuata‘ (also called tanán táwax̣ ‘Indian tobacco’); tawáx̣pas ‘tobacco pouch’.
Animal
- kákya ‘bird, animal’;
- sapx̣ʷninłá kákya ‘crawling animal’;
- waynałá kákya ‘flying creature’;
- tawyanaktpamá kákya ‘farm animal’;
- ayatúks ‘female animal’;
- c̓ɨsmalpál ‘imaginary animal in the story of Antelope and Coyote’.
puˀúx̣puˀux̣
Gray; darker buckskin horse; mugwort, Douglas’ wormwood (Artemisia douglasiana); silver wormwood or gray sagewort (Artemisia ludoviciana). puˀúx̣puˀux̣ pɨšx̣ú ‘gray rabbit-brush (Chrysothamnus nauseosus)’; puˀúx̣puˀux̣ ttɨ́x̣š ‘Coyote willow (Salix exigua)’.