236 terms start with “a

Arrowhead

tanínš; wáptu ~ ɨstíˀɨstins ~ stínstins ‘wapato, Sagittaria latifolia‘.

Artery

ak̓ʷɨ́šak̓ʷš ‘blood vessel, vein, artery’.

Arthritis

šapáłkapi ‘arthritis’.

Arthritis

šapáłkap ‘have arthritis’.

Artifact

aníyi pšwá ‘stone artifact’.

Artificial

aníyi ‘made, man made, manufactured, hand-made’; ilukasmí aníyi ‘made of wood, carved’.

As

ana kúuš ‘like, such as’.

Ascend

panáyti ‘climb, go up’; wáałtx̣ ‘ascend hill, climb stairway’; wáax̣ʷaami ‘run uphill, fly up’; x̣ʷáami ‘rise, go up’; típax̣ʷaami ‘go up backwards’.

Ash

kʷalkʷála ‘mountain-ash, Sorbus scopulina, S. sitchensis‘; kʷalkʷálayaaš ‘mountain-ash tree’.

Ashamed

ƛ̓uyá; pináƛ̓uyani (singular); pamáƛ̓uyani (plural).

Ashamed

yaˀáwn ‘be offended, be ashamed’.

Ashamed

ƛ̓uyá ‘be ashamed of’.

Ashes

lákʷaškʷaš ~ láqʷašqʷaš ~ lák̓ʷšk̓ʷš ~ látx̣tx̣.

Ashore

láytk̓i ‘go ashore, come out of water’ (bound root); pyútn ‘go ashore’; ƛúpwaapyuč ‘jump to shore’; yáwaalaytk̓i ‘drift ashore’.

Ashy

papx̣ʷłimá ‘dusty, powdery, like ashes’.

Ask

šápni; wiyášapni ‘ask along the way’; aƛ̓áwi ‘ask for, request, petition, pray’; náx̣ašwi ‘ask to go’; náx̣awn ‘talk into going’; náwiyanawi ‘arrive to ask’.

Asking

šápnit ‘question’.

Asparagus

k̓ilák̓ilaAsparagus officinalis‘.

Aspect

-ša (imperfective/progressive); -x̣a (habitual/frequentative aspect).

Aspen

niní ‘quaking-aspen, Populus tremuloides‘.