Terms starting with “n” – Page 5 – Umatilla Language Online Dictionary

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Noodle

šíiyat ‘spinal nerve or “noodle” of eel or lamprey (k̓súyas)’.

wiyátk̓ukt ‘twelve o’clock’.

wiyátk̓ʷk ‘be straight up, be noon’.

k̓sɨ́taas; átya ‘cold wind, north wind’; atyayáy ‘North Wind’ (legendary character).

lɨ́šwaylat ~ lɨ́šwaaluukt ~ lɨ́šqayx̣it ‘aurora borealis’.

lɨ́šqayx̣i ‘shine, light up, sparkle, be northern lights’.

núšnu.

sunínn ‘nose around’.

lapšúšit; núšnukni tilíwal.

lapšúši ‘have a nosebleed’.

čáw ‘no, not’; čáwx̣i ‘not yet’; čáw tún waníči ‘not worth anything’.

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

šák̓ʷik.

áwtik̓a ‘in vain, for nothing’.

čáw tún.

mɨšqítwa ‘pay attention’; šíwa ‘not know, not recognize, not notice’.

šapášukʷa ‘make known, warn’.

áw ‘now’;

íkuuk ‘right then, today’;

kpáyl ‘presently, recently, just now’;

áwtya ‘now rather, nevertheless, in spite of, notwithstanding’.

čáw mɨná; čáw máan wínataš ‘nowhere to go’.

pák̓ʷaak ‘poke with the hand or finger’.