Search results for “coyote”

Man’s son-in-law; man’s fatherin-law. pšáš ‘father-in-law! son-in-law!’; ínpšaš ‘my father-in-law’; ímpšaš ‘your father-in-law’; pšáš ‘(his/her) son-in-law/ father-in-law’; pšáš áwa spilyaynɨmí ‘Coyote has a son-in-law’ (Jacobs 1937:33.5.1, pg. 83); čɨ́mtina wá pšáš ‘we have a new son-in-law’. [NP /pses/.]

Wood, firewood, stick. paˀík̓ukɨnx̣a čúušpa ílukasna ‘they (beaver) pile wood in the water’; Spilyáy išnaawíya ílukasna x̣yáwna ‘Coyote looked for dry wood’; čáwš mún áwat̓ana ílukaski ‘I never whipped them with a stick’; ilukasmí aníyi ‘made of wood’; šáx̣ƛ̓ki ílukas ‘stump’; ilukasmí áwšnitš ‘wooden floor’; ilukasmí ɨstí ‘wooden needle (whittled from hardwood and used for sewing tule mats)’. [NP /hecu/.]

Man’s brother or male cousin, man’s male friend. ínx̣ay ‘my brother’; ímx̣ay ‘your brother’; čáw míš pámim x̣áy ‘don’t do anything to me, brother!’; inmí iwá x̣áy ‘he’s my friend’; inmíš wá x̣áy ‘he’s my friend’; ínx̣ay iwá ‘he’s my friend’; ku ɨ́nx̣ana x̣áypa ‘and he would tell his friend’; pawačá Spilyáy x̣áyin ‘Coyote was with his friend’; x̣áynaš yáx̣ɨn pápasamx̣nax̣aataš naamíki sɨ́nwitki ‘I have found a friend, we talk to one another in our language’; mɨ́ł áwača x̣áyma natilasanmí ‘how many brothers did my grandfather have?’; páx̣naw Huliyáyma x̣áyma ‘the five wind brothers’; inx̣aynmí x̣ɨ́tway ‘my cousin’s friend’.

Night, darkness. aykáat iwá sc̓át ‘the night is clear’; ku áwiyatk̓uka sc̓atmí ‘and it was midnight’; kunam k̓í sc̓átpak̓a náktux̣šamta k̓ʷapɨ́n nɨkʷɨ́t ‘and on the last night you will bring back the aforementioned meat’; pačáx̣ɨlpɨnx̣a wánpt náx̣š sc̓át wát̓i ‘they open the medicine singing one night ahead’; páwx̣awiya Spilyáyin sc̓átna ku aw kú tiičám iwɨ́šayča ‘Coyote wrestled the dark and then the land came to be’; iwɨ́šayča sc̓átpa ‘he was born at night’; páx̣at sc̓át ‘five nights’; papáču sc̓át ‘midnight’; wáˀuyitpa sc̓át ‘on Saturday night’; wát̓uy sc̓át Kísmisyaw ‘the night before Christmas’; níix̣ sc̓átpa ‘good night’; pɨ́sc̓at ‘fog’. Ablaut: sáac̓at ‘very dark’. [NP cik̓éetin /ck̓étn-t/.]

Bird, animal. The prototype animal is a bird, typically a magpie (áč̓ay). tál iwá kskɨ́s kákya ‘black bug is a small insect’; áswan iwačá kákya ‘the bird was a boy’; paˀínɨmša kákyama ‘the birds are singing’; ƛ̓áax̣ʷna kákya pašúkayiša waníčt ‘all the animals know our names (especially the meadowlark [x̣ʷɨ́łx̣ʷł])’; kuna paˀáwx̣ta kákya ana kú pawiyánawita ánč̓ax̣i ‘and the birds will miss us when they come back again’; ƛ̓áax̣ʷ ana tún pawá kákyama ‘all whatever are the animals’; tunx̣túnx̣ kákyama ‘different animals’; kákyama pawá ƛ̓áax̣ʷ – wawúkya x̣átx̣at spílya ‘they’re all animals – elk, duck, coyote…’; sapx̣ʷninłá kákyama ‘crawling animals’ (saysáy ‘worms’, pyúš ‘snakes’, ámuš ‘snails’); waynałá kákyama ‘flying creatures’ (x̣ʷaamá ‘eagle’, č̓átaqš ‘bat’, atníwa ‘bee’); ánakʷi kákya ‘the thrown back creatures (from the Legend Time)’; tawyanaktpamá kákyama ‘farm animals’; tkʷátat kakyamaamíyay tkʷátataš ‘food for the animals to eat’; kakyamaamí winanuut̓áwas ‘bird bath’; támšɨlpi kákya ‘ladybug’.

Associative case. Requires plural subject or object verb agreement. pišíšin pawínašana ‘he was going with his aunt’; tútin wínatk ‘go with your father!’; wínšintaš wačá watím ‘the man was with me yesterday’; kʷnátaš ášx̣ana tiyawtášpa nax̣áx̣asayin ‘I used to go in that drying shed with my maternal aunt’; patáwyašana Wawatáwya Spilyáyin ‘Antelope was living with Coyote’; wiyánawiyaataš kʷiiní wínšin ‘I arrived with that man’; miyánašin pawá ‘she’s with her child’; ku aw kú patáwyašana káłayin ‘and then he was living with his grandmother’; kʷná patáwyanaykɨnx̣ana k̓ʷáy káłyin ‘that one used to live there with his grandmother’; pyápin payámx̣atwanaša pčápa ‘he with his older brother are crying after their mother’. With accusative: álaakɨnšnaš Johnna Janeinaman ‘I have forgotten John along with Jane’. Marks the ergative in the pragmatic inverse: ku kʷná čúušin pátwanana ƛ̓áax̣ʷmaaman ‘and there the water follows them all’; ku kúuk súlcasin pášapawinama čaaní ‘and then the army sent them here’; ku kʷaaná pátwanimta náx̣šin ɨsípin ‘and another younger sister will come following her’; ku káayk pákʷayix̣a kʷiiní plášin plɨ́splɨsin ‘and that snowberry cleans his (sore)’; kʷáal x̣ašta pánakwinana čúušin ‘maybe the water brought him that far’; ana tún iwá tkʷátat ana k̓ʷapɨ́n pániča čná tiičámpa naamíin aniłáyin ‘anything that is the food which our Creator put on this land’. [NP /-iins/ (a grammatical extension of the possessive function of the past participle).]