376 terms start with “b

Blocking

k̓áank ‘in the way’.

Blood

tilíwal.

Bloom

latít ~ latíš ‘flower, blossom’; palpálp ‘flower buds’.

Bloom

latí ‘flower, blossom’; pálp ‘bud out’; latítnaq̓i ‘finish blooming’.

Blow

hulín ‘blow (wind)’; átya ‘blow cold (north wind)’; wiláq̓x̣ ‘blow cold (wind)’; wináwayn ‘blow warm wind’; tx̣áwna ‘blow (dry east wind)’; tamátunik ‘blow upriver (wind)’; tamáypx̣ ‘blow downriver (wind)’; táwhulin ‘blow at night (wind)’.

Blow

šapúulk ~ sapúulk ‘blow (with the mouth to cool, start fire, etc.), blow up (e.g., a balloon)’; šapúulkšapuulk ‘blow water in healing ceremony’; wilápux̣ ‘blow up dust (of wind)’; wiláwɨx̣ič ‘blow down (of wind)’; wilápux̣ ‘blow up dust’; wiláx̣aap ‘blow underneath’.

Blower

šapulpuliłá ~ šapuulkšapuulkłá ‘healer who blows water’.

Blowing

wilá- ‘pertaining to wind’; sapúu- ‘by blowing with mouth’.

Blown

šapúulki ‘blown, blown up’.

Blue

lámt.

Blue

tuyá ~ ptí ‘blue grouse, Dendragapus obscurus‘; k̓ʷyámk̓ʷyam ‘blue racer snake, Coluber constrictor‘; x̣máaš latít lámt ‘blue camas flower, Camassia quamash‘; lamtmí sulátas ‘blue jeans’.

Blueback

kálux ‘sockeye or blueback salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka‘; kaluxkálux ‘jack blueback salmon’.

Blueberry

huˀušlí ~ q̓šɨšlí ~ luc̓aluc̓alí ~ luc̓áluc̓a wíwnu ‘early blueberry, blue huckleberry, oval-leaf huckleberry, Vaccinium ovalifolium‘; ililmúk ‘Cascade blueberry, V. deliciosum‘; ‘dwarf bilberry, V. cespitosum (also, caespitosum)’; ililmúkaaš ‘dwarf huckleberry bush’.

Bluebird

yulyúl ‘mountain bluebird, Sialia currucoides‘.

Bluff

tnán; x̣úupnit.

Board

šáx̣aapt ‘board, lumber’; puwat̓áwas ~ sk̓ín ~ tamcásas ‘cradleboard, baby board’; čatpnitpamá ‘hide stretching board’.

Board

wáša ‘ride (horse), board (canoe), get on (wagon, car)’.

Boardman

Ɨštɨ́ši ‘Boardman, Oregon’.

Boat

wásas ‘canoe, boat, raft’.

Bobbypin

suk̓páwaspa tutanikpamá ‘bobbypin’.