376 terms start with “b

Bobcat

pɨ́č̓ɨm ‘wild cat, Lynx rufus‘.

Bobtailed

wałxʷasnút ‘bobtailed, tailless’.

Body

wáwnakʷšaš; láqayx̣iyi wáwnakʷšaš ‘brightened body (said of a peeled root)’; apúlk ‘body lice’.

Bogeyman

k̓ʷalalí ‘a being from the legendary time capable of supernatural power and thus dangerous’.

Boil

aƛ̓ɨ́x̣aƛ̓x̣ ~ c̓uc̓úums ~ c̓ic̓úums ‘carbuncle’; łayłáy ‘impetigo, boil’.

Boil

muláyt; lámulayt; mulaytamáwi ‘boil over’.

Boil

wáynuun ‘stew, cook in a pot, hot pack’; twáša ‘cook, boil’; šapámulayt ’cause to boil’.

Boiled

muláyti; twášani ‘cooked, boiled’; wáynuuni ‘boiled, cooked, canned’.

Bold

skáw ‘fierce, tough’.

Bolt

wɨsak̓páwas.

Bond

lɨšt̓ɨ́x̣n ‘stick, be stuck, adhere, be attached’.

Bond

lɨst̓á ‘join, take part in’; wiyálst̓ak ‘rejoin’.

Bone

pípš; pípš ɨstí ‘bone needle’; pipšmí wášɨmux̣š ‘bone necklace’; t̓ɨx̣náwas ‘bone for scraping dogbane’; alɨxmí pípš ‘wing bone’; x̣ʷaamanmí pipšmí xʷiittpamá ‘eagle bone whistle’; tápu ‘bone marrow’.

Bone-game

palyáwat ‘the bone game’; táwaxicas ‘bone game set, sticks for the stick-game, counter in the bone game, the guess stick’; łkmá ‘stick-game bone’; pláš łkmá ‘white bone (the right bone)’; walák̓iki łkmá ‘bone with the mark (the wrong bone)’; łtúwitas ‘kick stick in the bone game’; tkʷáywanpt ‘the bone-game song’.

Bone-game

palyáwa ‘play the bone game’; alyáwa ‘bet in the bone game’; tkʷáywanp ‘sing the bone-game songs’.

Bony

xípac ‘ribs sticking out’.

Book

tímaš ‘paper, book’; hawláak tímaš ‘the invisible book (records our deeds good and bad)’.

Boot

wakmuykłaamí wɨłq̓ám ‘cowboy boots’.

Booty

tiyánpš ‘that which is taken away, plunder’.

Booze

mɨlá čúut ‘bad drink, liquor’.