454 terms start with “c

Canyon

x̣ɨwúš ~ x̣ɨwɨ́š ~ qamíł ~ q̓mɨ́ł.

Capable

čanupáa ‘able, competent, energetic, dependable, cooperative’.

Cape

tamáwniki; ax̣šax̣šmí tamáwniki ‘dentalium cape’.

Car

wayx̣tiłá ‘runner; automobile’; átmupil ‘automobile’; sapawt̓wɨtkní ‘pump car (on the railroad)’.

Carbuncle

c̓uc̓úums ~ c̓ic̓úums ‘boil, carbuncle’.

Card

cáxcam ‘playing cards’; caxcamíit ‘card game’; walúukš ‘a gambling card game’.

Card

šapáčax̣uk ‘card with hands (wool, dogbane)’.

Care

naknúwi ‘take care of, look after, keep’; sápqitwa ‘take care of’; wáalwi ‘take care of’; qíčkn ‘care for’; nákwaasikayk ‘stay at home to take care of’; náktkʷaninn ‘take care of (such as hunters take care of the meat and diggers take of the roots); take care of a person who cannot take care of himself; take care of the body of the deceased’.

Carelessly

yalmílk ‘any old way, haphazzardly, frivolously, sloppily’.

Carer

naknuwiłá ‘keeper, caretaker, care giver’.

Carpenter

niitaniłá ‘house builder’.

Carried

šápa ‘carried on the back’; k̓álaki ‘tied, packed on the back’.

Carrot

sawítk ‘Indian carrot, common or Gardner’s yampah, Perideridia gairdneri‘ (also called, tawtnúk wayx̣wáyčtpa ‘medicine at a bridge’); lakaláat ~ sawitkwáakuł ‘domestic carrot, Daucus carota‘.

Carry

k̓álak ‘pack on the back’; náčič ‘bring’; nákninn ‘carry about’; náknɨknik ‘carry around the long house for display’; nákpyuč ‘carry ashore’; náksklik ‘carry around’; nákwaanaynač ‘carry inside’; nákwina ‘take along, take the lead’; nák̓ninn ‘haul by, carry about’; nána ‘take along’; qútamič ‘carry on the back downhill’; šápa ‘carry on the back’; tápintapinn ‘carry a lantern around’; wáanačič ‘bring at a run’.

Carrying

nák- ~ ná- ‘bringing, taking’.

Cartilage

kúmkum ‘soft gristle in the head of the salmon’.

Carve

wɨsláˀani.

Carved

ilukasmí aníyi ‘made of wood’.

Carving

wɨslá- ‘with a knife (as in carving on a stick)’.

Cascade

qápaničanwi ‘spill over the falls’.