pák̓ʷaak ‘poke with the hand or finger’; pác̓ik ‘poke in the eye’.
Jack
tkʷiláttkʷilat ‘jack chinook salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha‘; kaluxkálux ‘jack blueback salmon, O. nerka‘; caakyáy ‘Jack (in cards)’.
Jackrabbit
wilalík ‘jackrabbit, blacktailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus), white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii); čmúk wáłxʷas wilalík ‘black-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus californicus‘; pláš wáłxʷas wilalík ‘white-tailed jackrabbit, Lepus townsendii‘.
Jail
tamaynacáwas ‘prison, jail’; tamaynačtpamá ‘pawn shop; jail’.
Jail
tamáynač ‘throw inside, drop inside, put inside; hock, pawn (vtt.); jail’.
Jailed
tamáynači ‘jailed, in jail’.
Jam
tmaanitmí šapaq̓ʷiišktpamá ‘jam, jelly’; wɨlwɨ́l ‘jello, jam, jelly’.
January
k̓sɨ́t̓al.
Japanese
Capaníis.
Jar
taatpamá ‘vessel, can, container’.
Jaw
ɨ́mtnɨm; tɨ́n; kúmkum ‘salmon head or jaw cartilage, the soft gristle in the head of the salmon’.
Jay
x̣ʷášx̣ʷay ‘Steller’s jay, Cyanocitta stelleri’ (also ‘blue jay, C. cristata’); cpúkux ~ níitpa pax̣ʷíłam ~ yapašpat̓ałá ‘gray jay, camp robber, Perisoreus canadensis’ (yapašpat̓ałá also for ‘Clark’s nutcracker, Nucifraga columbiana’).
Jealous
šána ‘be jealous of (as of a spouse suspected of infidelity)’.