107 terms start with “n”

Nightmare

táwtk̓ʷaninn ‘sleep-walk, have a nightmare’.

Nightmare

táwwiyayč̓un ‘have a nightmare’.

Nine

k̓úyc.

Ninety

k̓uysáaptit.

Ninth

k̓úyciyaw.

Nipple

wac̓aakáwas ‘lock; nipple’; sapawac̓aakáwas ‘pacifier, nipple on a bottle’.

Nit

asás ‘louse egg’.

No

čáw ‘no, not’; čáw míš ‘no way’; čáwk̓a ‘no more, no longer’.

Noble

patátuy ~ patatuywáakuł ‘noble fir, Abies procera‘.

Nobody

čáw šín.

Nock

wisk̓anpkáwas ‘arrow nock, notch at the end of an arrow’.

Nod

wɨ́t̓k ‘nod the head’; wɨt̓kwɨ́t̓k ‘nod the head up and down’; tútalɨmq̓i ‘turn the head back and forth with the eyes closed’.

Noise

ná- ‘with noise, vocalization’.

Noise

nášat; čč̓ɨlłá ‘noise maker, person or thing that makes noise’.

Noise

čč̓ɨ́ln ‘make noise, interrupt’; ínɨmn ‘whinney, nicker (horse), moo (cow), crow, chirp’; náša ‘make noise, roar, sound’; tamáčayk ‘yell, clap, join in making noise’; tamáx̣ʷaami ‘laugh around, make noise’; táwnaša ‘make noise at night’; tunánaša ‘make noise with the feet’; wáanaša ‘make noise while running’; x̣átamanaša ‘make noise falling’.

Noiselessly

čukʷíin ‘quietly, noiselessly’.

Noisy

čč̓áal.

Nominalizer

Function:

Turns words into nouns.

  1. -t (active nominalizer);
  2. -łá (agentive nominalizer);
  3. -łam (agentive nominalizer with negative connotations);
  4. -ˀát (feminine agentive);
  5. -áwas ~ –-t̓áwas (instrument nominalizer);
  6. -š (patient nominalizer);
  7. -ínš (attribute nominalizer);
  8. -aš (purpose nominalizer);
  9. -pas (nominalizer for containers).

Nominative

Definition:

Subject

  1. i- (3rd person singular nominative pronominal);
  2. pa- (3rd person plural nominative pronominal).

Nonhuman

-t (numeral classifier); -tík (naptík ‘both’).