376 terms start with “b

Bison

músmuscɨn ~ cúułɨm ~ waamá músmuscɨnBison bison‘.

Bit

cawaanaynacáwas ~ sapacanpáwas ‘horse bit, bridle, the whole headstall’.

Bitch

ayatúksk̓usik̓úsi ‘female dog’.

Bite

čánp; lámaašn ‘sting, bite (of insects).

Bitten

čánpi.

Bitter cherry

psuniwáakuł ‘water birch, Prunus emarginata‘. Also asnɨ́ps.

Bitterbrush

č̓ɨší ‘antelope brush, Purshia tridentata‘.

Bitterroot

pyax̣íLewisia rediviva‘.

Black

čmúk; ččmúk ‘black things’; čmáakʷ ‘dark, sooty, very black’.

Black

čmúk k̓úsi ‘black horse’; čmáakʷli ‘black person’; čmáakʷlima ‘black people’; čmúk táatpas ~ čmuktáatpas ‘Black Robe, Catholic, priest’.

Black Mountain

tahámtaham ‘a mountain in Morrow County, Oregon, summit at 5,896 feet’; Qimáatayt ‘peak near Black Mountain’.

Blackberry

wisík ‘wild blackberry, Rubus ursinus‘.

Blackbird

ƛ̓ɨ́ƛ̓ɨmux̣ ‘red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus‘.

Blackcap

sáxat ~ šáx̣at ~ čmúk šáx̣at ‘blackcap raspberry, Rubus leucodermis‘.

Blacksmith

pstxłá; pstxáwas ‘blacksmith hammer’; pstɨxt̓áwas ‘blacksmith tools, anvil, hammer, etc.’; pstxtpamá ‘blacksmith shop’; pɨ́stxt ‘blacksmithing’.

Blacksmith

pɨ́stx ‘do blacksmith work’.

Blackwidow

tíšpun ‘blackwidow spider, Latrodectus hesperus‘.

Bladder

íwspas.

Blalock

táwaš ‘Blalock Canyon, Oregon’. nč̓í Ɨmá ~ Ɨmáˀɨma ‘Blalock Island’ (on Columbia River).

Blame

aníyayi ‘make for; suspect’.