sɨ́nwit ‘talking, word, words, language’.
742 terms start with “s”
Spear
pɨtyat̓áwas; tayx̣áy ‘fish spear’; wáwx ‘two pronged fish spear’; tanú ‘spear, spearhead’.
Spear
tayx̣áy ‘spear fish’.
Spear
pɨ́tya ‘stab, pierce’; tkʷáyta ‘throw, throw a spear’; ɨst̓íya ‘stab, spear’; táp ‘spear fish by torchlight’; tamák̓ʷaak ‘poke with dart or spear’.
Spearer
pɨtyałá ‘one who spears’.
Spearhead
tanú ‘spear, spearhead’.
Species
kʷtɨ́n ‘variety, that kind’.
Spectacles
ačašpamá ‘eye glasses’.
Speechless
ččúu ‘quiet, still, peace’.
Spell
- watáyi ‘to cast a spell, kill with one’s spirit power’.
Spend
łk̓ʷín ‘be a day, spend the day, stay the day’; wiyáłk̓ʷin ‘spend the day’.
Spherical
k̓páat ’round, globular’; q̓píit ’round, globular’ (larger than k̓píit); c̓íil ’round, circular, globular’.
Spice
támc̓i ‘sweetner, seasoning; sticky geranium, Geranium viscossisimum‘.
Spice
íc̓ik ‘sweeten’; támc̓i ‘sweeten, season, flavor’; tamšúywi ‘sting (of an ant); seasoning, flavor’.
Spicy
pƛɨ́k ‘peppery, hot, piquant; pepper’; páyu pƛɨ́k ‘very spicy’.
Spider
wɨxalxalí (also wɨxalxalíya, xalxalúya); tíšpun ‘blackwidow spider, Latrodectus hesperus‘; wɨxalxalinmí túkš ‘spider web’.
Spike
kƛáa ‘spike buck’.
Spiked water-milfoil
yawastakíns ‘Myriophyllum spicatum‘.
Spill
qáax̣ta; x̣áwaƛ̓ak ‘spill all over, spread out’; qápaničanwi ‘cascade, spill over the falls’.
Spill
yáx̣ta ‘pour’.