454 terms start with “c”

Cabbage

watiptíp ‘skunk cabbage, Lysichiton americanus‘.

Cabinet

tikaypamá ničtpamá ‘cabinet’.

Cache

wɨlčí ‘pit house, dug-out house, winter cache big enough to walk into’; wɨlčítaš ‘abandoned pit house’; atamkí ‘cache pit, underground storage’; ničtpamá ‘storage place, winter cache, closet’.

Cactus

ɨštɨ́š ‘plains pricklypear, Opuntia polycantha‘; pašáyix̣ ’round stem prickly pear, O. fragilis‘.

Caddisfly

x̣ɨmt̓úy ‘caddisfly larva, periwinkle, pennywinkle (Trichoptera)’.

Cafe

tkʷatatpamá ‘table, restaurant’.

Cake

tamámi; tmɨšmí ‘cake made with chokecherries’.

Calendar

alxayxpamá ititámat.

Calf

q̓ayík ~ k̓ayík ‘calf, elk calf, colt, adopted colt or calf (as when put with a new mother)’; q̓áyq̓ay ‘elk calf, horse colt’; anwimá q̓áyq̓ay ‘yearling colt/ calf’; kskɨ́s músmuscɨn ‘little calf’; áwt̓iks ‘calf of leg’.

Calico

mác̓ya ~ mac̓yá ‘humpback, calico, or pink salmon, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha‘.

Call

táax̣ʷat ‘drum call’.

Call

wánpi ‘call, invite, summon’; čáyuuyuun ‘call for help’; támsyuuyuun ‘holler for help’; páwiyak̓uk ‘call a meeting’; wásusun ‘call on telephone’; yúuyuun ‘call out, holler, yell, shout’.

Call

waníč ‘name, designate, assign’; wiyátx̣šawk ‘holler back’.

Calm

íƛx̣ɨtk ‘break horse to ride, tame’.

Calumet

čalámat ‘pipe, ceremonial pipe’.

Camas

x̣máaš ‘Camassia quamash‘; alapíšaš ‘death camas, Zigadenus venenosus‘ (perhaps also, ‘foothill death camas, Z. paniculatus‘; ‘mountain death camas, Anticlea elegans‘).

Cambium

suk̓ʷáymit ‘edible inner bark of Ponderosa pine’.

Camera

sapalalp̓atpamá.

Camp

táwyanaykt ~ tawyanikáwas ‘village, camp, dwelling’; nisáwtas ‘abandoned camp’.

Camp

wáwtuk ~ wɨšwáwtuk ‘camp overnight’; páwšk̓uk ‘camp together’; wɨšínn ~ wɨšínwɨšin ‘camp here and there’; šátayk ‘camp for food gathering’; tkúma ‘camp to dig roots’.