454 terms start with “c”

Clam

siwáala ‘freshwater clam’ (also xɨstú ~ x̣ɨštú; šiwáala); šáx̣u ‘salt water clam (Heterodonta)’.

Clap

pát̓qt̓qn; tamáčayk ‘yell, aplaud, join in making noise’.

Clashing

čawp̓ɨ́x̣ ‘unmatched, incompatible’.

Classifier

-t (nonhuman numeral classifier); -u (human numeral classifier); -tík (nonhuman classifier).

Claw

aasá ‘nail, fingernail, toenail; claw (of birds, bear)’; yakanmí aasá ‘bear claw’; aałá ‘big old claw’.

Clean

kyáak ~ káayk; małáa ‘clean, neat’; małáamałaa ‘clean ones’.

Clean

íkiik ‘cleanse, wash, wipe’; ímałak ‘clean up’; íix̣n ‘wash’; čáq̓x̣i ‘clean off, make smooth’; sapákiik ‘wash, brush off’; šapáyx̣ʷtk ‘clean peelings off roots’; twákiik ‘clean out with a stick or spatula’.

Cleaned

íix̣ni; íkiiki.

Cleaner

maykyáak ‘cleaner’.

Cleaning

ikiiktpamá ‘pertaining to cleaning’.

Cleanse

íkiik ‘clean, wash, wipe’; sapákiik ‘make clean’.

Clear

aykáat ‘clear of sky’; p̓ɨ́x̣ ‘clear of mind, aware, remembering, sober, with aforethought’; qɨwíił ‘open, unobstructed’; ƛ̓áw ‘clear of sky’.

Clear

hawláak túx̣ɨn ‘clear sky’.

Clear

aykáatn ~ aykɨ́tn ‘be clear (of sky)’; níix̣ ‘be good, clear up, be good weather’.

Clear

ílaamk ‘erase, clear tracks (as after a funeral)’; wɨ́q̓x̣ ‘clear out grass or brush’.

Clearing

áypɨx̣ ‘flat ground, plains, land down below as seen when coming over the hill’; q̓áax̣ ‘clearing in forest, plain, treeless area’.

Clematis

tamk̓ikskúla ‘clematis vine, Clematis ligusticifolia‘.

Clench

šapák̓ɨptk ‘make a fist’; q̓šɨ́šn ‘hold on to, hang on to, grasp, hold in the hands’.

Clenched

q̓šɨ́š ‘tight fisted’.

Cliff

tnán ‘bluff, crag’; q̓mɨ́ł ‘rock face, canyon with bluffs on both sides’; q̓mɨ́łq̓mɨł ‘cliffs’; tnánnaq̓it ‘end of cliff, base of rimrock’.