252 terms start with “w

Witchcraft

ínaamk ‘erase; cause to age; destroy through witchcraft’.

With

-in (associative); -ki (instrumental).

With

-twana ‘with, together with’.

Wither

ɨwátn ‘vanish, disappear, wither away’.

Within

míti ‘underneath, below, inside, within’.

Without

-áł (deverbative: tkʷatanáł ‘without eating’); -nút (denominative: tkʷatatnút ‘without food’).

Wobbly

kɨkanakɨ́kana ‘wobbly, staggering’.

Wokas

kalamát ‘yellow water-lily, Indian pond lily, Nuphar polysepala‘.

Wolf

x̣álišCanis lupus‘.

Wolverine

wašapaníGulo gulo luscus‘.

Woman

paláxni ‘desirous of women, woman crazy’.

Woman

tílaaki (also áyat); tílaakima ‘women’; tílaakiin ‘two women’; tmáy ‘young unmarried woman’; ttmáyma ‘young unmarried women’; ttmáyin ‘two young unmarried women’; łmáma ‘old woman, elderly lady’; łmamatúma ‘old women’; łmamatúwin ‘two old women’; x̣niłá ‘root digger, woman or girl’.

Wondering

kʷa; kʷata kú ‘wonder…’.

Wood

ílukas ‘firewood, stick’; lúq̓um (ílukas) ‘rotten wood’; ilukasmí áwšnitš ‘wood floor’; ilukasmí ɨstí ‘wood needle’.

Wooden

ilukasmí ‘of wood’.

Woodpecker

wak̓íwk̓iw ~ wánanp̓as ‘pileated woodpecker, Dryocopus pileatus‘; síwsiw ‘Lewis’ woodpecker, Melanerpes lewis‘; píps ‘hairy woodpecker, Picoides villosus‘; mɨšt̓ɨ́l ‘small woodpecker sp.’.

Woof

wáp̓aš ‘woof in basket weaving’.

Wool

šiipmí lawláw ‘sheep’s fur’.

Woolybear

čalawlawí ‘woolybear caterpillar (Arctiidae)’.

Word

  1. sɨ́nwit ‘speaking, talking, words, language’;
  2. támsɨnwit ‘words to a song’;
  3. ičiškíin sɨ́nwit ‘word in the Indian language’.