97 terms start with “o

Order

sápc̓aak ‘arrange, put in order’; náknɨknik ‘put in order, take around the long house for display’.

Order

mɨ́ta ‘tell to do, command’; łáykʷn ‘angrily reject, order to leave’.

Ordinary

áčna ‘common, average’; walím ‘common, customary; traditional’.

Oregon grape

łk̓áwk̓awMahonia aquifolium‘; łk̓áwk̓awaaš ‘Oregon grape bush’; šk̓áwšk̓aw ‘dwarf or Cascade Oregon grape, Mahonia nervosa‘.

Oriole

wawšukłá ‘northern oriole, Icterus galbula‘.

Ornery

hawɨ́liš ‘mean, cantankerous’; páči ‘mean, bad-tempered, disrespectful’; wapčáy ‘prone to violence’.

Ornery

pačíwi ‘be ornery, ugly, mean’.

Orneryness

pačíwit.

Orphan

ánut̓at.

Osprey

qiqínuPandion haliaetus‘. Sometimes called šáx̣šax̣ (a word that otherwise refers to the ‘belted kingfisher, Megaceryle alcyon‘).

Otherwise

tɨ́knik̓a ‘on the other hand, like that again, instead’.

Otter

nukšáyLutra Canadensis‘; ‘otter fur strips worn on braids’; nukšaynmí lawláw ‘otter fur’; waláamkʷš ‘otter skin braid wrap’.

Ours

  1. =na ‘we, us, ours, our’ (inclusive);
  2. =nataš ‘we, us, ours, our’ (exclusive).

Ours

  1. naamí ‘ours, our’;
  2. napiinamí ‘ours, our’ (dual).

Out

nayt ‘out’ (bound root); laytk̓i ‘out of water’ (bound root).

Out

át ‘go out, exit’; páyšn ‘come out, emerge’; pní ’emerge, come out into the open’; t̓ɨ́šn ‘go out (of fire)’; waqášwi ‘drop out of a herd or group’.

Outdo

ík̓aywak ‘shorten (the life of), diminish’.

Outfit

wapáwat ~ pináwapawat ‘costume, decoration, Indian apparel’; tanán wapáwat ‘Indian outfit’; tamíčtay wapáwat ‘burial outfit’.

Outfitted

wapáwani ‘dressed up’.

Outside

ámčni ‘from outside, on the outside’; ámčan ‘toward the outside’.