Terms starting with “a” – Page 12 – Umatilla Language Online Dictionary

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For verbal augments, see ɨ-; -k; -č.

pišíš ‘paternal aunt’; pax̣áx̣ ‘maternal aunt’.

lɨ́šwaylat ~ lɨ́šqayx̣it ~ lɨ́šwaaluukt ‘northern lights’.

lɨ́šqayx̣i ‘be northern lights’.

wayx̣tiłá ‘runner; car’; átmupil ‘car’.

špám ‘fall’; špamíwit ‘the beginning of autumn’.

špamíwi ‘become autumn, return to fall’.

suspanwáakʷł ‘three-flowered avens, Geum triflorum‘ (also, ‘morel mushroom, Morchella spp.’).

íwiyatn; áwtn ‘avoid for religious reasons’.

k̓ʷɨlɨ́m; wáq̓iš ‘alive’.

táx̣ši ‘wake up, get up’; táwtax̣ši ‘wake up at night’; k̓ʷɨlɨ́mn ‘stay awake’.

ítax̣ši; túutax̣ši ‘wake up by vocalizing’; túuk̓ʷɨlɨmk ‘keep awake, disturb sleep by talking or laughing’.

p̓ɨ́x̣ ‘clear, aware, remembering, sober, with aforethought’.

ƛ̓ánx̣ ‘away, left, released, irrelevant’.

nč̓í ɨstí ‘big needle’; ɨstí ‘needle, awl, metal’; tamaƛ̓aakáwas ‘a small awl’.

wacúqt ‘axe, hatchet’.