tamanwiłá ‘lawgiver, God’.
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Lehman Hot Springs
Múlišinma ‘Lehman Hot Springs south of the Umatilla Reservation near Ukiah’.
Leisurely
lá-.
Leisurely
láˀayč ‘sit leisurely’; lánč̓un ‘sleep leisurely’; látk̓ʷanayti ‘walk along leisurely’; láwša ~ láwx̣in ‘lie inert; leisurely lie, lie around, recline’ (singular subject).
Lend
wátk̓ʷawi.
Lengthen
pác̓aak ‘add on, make longer’.
Lens
spilyaynmí áčaš ‘contact lenses’.
Leprechaun
panakłamayčłá ‘little person that lives in the mountains’; ɨst̓iyahá ‘Stick Indian, Big Foot, Sasquatch, Little People’.
Lessen
čáksksi ‘make small’.
Let
wapáwx̣in ‘release, let go’; šapáwaanwi ‘let off (bus, conveyance)’.
Lettuce
pašx̣ašwáakuł (also for domestic sunflower); anipašwáakuł ‘miner’s lettuce, Indian lettuce, Claytonia perfoliata‘.
Levirate
pnúk ‘opposite sex sibling in-law, potential levirate spouse’; awít ‘opposite sex sibling-in-law after connecting kin is dead’.
Levirate
šapáˀayč ‘install levirate husband’.
Liar
č̓ɨškłá; p̓uxlíkš.
Lice
apɨ́lapɨl ‘head lice’; apúlk ~ páwluk ‘body lice’.
Lice
apɨ́ni ‘have head lice’; apɨ́lapɨli ‘be infested with lice, have mange’; apúlki ‘have body lice’.
Lichen
k̓ʷɨ́nč ‘edible pine lichen, Bryoria fremontii‘; k̓ʷɨnčwáakuł ‘gray or green tree lichen, Bryoria spp. (other than B. fremontii)’; tap̓ašpamá šwíčt ‘uncooked pine lichen’; mɨqɨ́ł ~ mɨx̣šlí ‘staghorn or wolf lichen, Letharia vulpina‘; mɨqɨ́łmɨqɨł pšwanmí ‘orange rock lichen’.
Lick
mɨláyn.
Licorice
áyun ‘lovage, Canby’s licoriceroot, Ligusticum canbyi‘ (also qawšqáwš); qawšqáwš ‘Gray’s licorice-root, Ligusticum grayi‘.
Lid
wak̓ɨnkáwas.