Terms starting with “m” – Page 11 – Umatilla Language Online Dictionary

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Mortar

k̓púł ~ k̓pk̓púł ‘bowl for pounding’; tutt̓áwas ‘stone mortar; mortal and pestle’.

wawá; k̓ask̓aspałá ‘mosquito larva; water skipper’.

k̓ʷɨ́nč ‘wila, edible pine lichen, Bryoria fremontii‘; aluq̓atmí útpas ‘green fresh water algae’.

=tx̣aw ‘all the way, ultimate’.

wawtukáwas ~ wawtuktpamá.

ilkʷšwɨnpat̓ałá.

pčá; pčáłk̓ʷi ‘Mother’s Day’.

pátu.

Waˀíist; pátu.

láwaalaytt ~ lɨwít.

kʷalkʷála ‘rowan, Greene mountain-ash, Sorbus scopulina‘; ‘Sitka Mountain-ash, S. sitchensis‘; kʷalkʷálayaaš ‘mountain-ash tree’.

šq̓ʷlá ‘mountain beaver, Aplodontia rufa‘.

k̓ʷaawí ‘cougar, Felis concolor‘.

č̓ɨšiwáakuł ‘curlleaf mountain mahogany, Cercocarpus ledifolius‘.

pɨt̓x̣anupamá ttɨ́x̣š ‘Salix monticola‘.

haywáa ‘come out of mourning, be able to go to celebratory functions’; tk̓anúun ‘complete the mourning period’.

q̓úmn ‘remember, cherish, prize, value, consider precious; hate to lose, mourn the loss’.

lákas ‘Great Basin pocket mouse, Perognathus parvus‘; yáamas ‘western jumping mouse, Zapus princeps‘.