158 terms start with “g”

Genitive case

  1. -nmí;
  2. -nmíin (emphatic);
  3. -amí (genitive plural).

Gentilic

-łáma (also -pam); -pal.

Geranium

támc̓i ‘sticky geranium, Geranium viscossisimum‘.

Gerridae

túytuy ‘water skipper (Gerridae)’.

Gesticulate

tkʷáptusk ‘point out, gesture, point the finger’.

Gesture

tkʷáptusk ‘point out, point the finger’.

Get

nɨ́p (bound root); wɨ́np ‘take, receive, grab, seize, hold, buy, nab, arrest’; nɨpáša ‘get back, retrieve’; wɨ́nptux̣ ‘get back, take back’; wiyánaktux̣ ‘get and take back’; tk̓úwi ‘get tules’.

Getter

wɨnpłá ‘buyer, nabber, policeman’.

Getting

náy-.

Getting

wɨ́npt ‘receiving, buying’.

Ghost

łč̓áč̓a.

Gift

nít ‘giving, present’; níyawtkʷit ‘going away gift’; támnit ‘things given out during the power singing (wánpt)’.

Gilia

qmɨ́msali tkʷátat ‘scarlet gilia, Ipomopsis aggregata‘.

Gill

čiyáwnu ‘fish gill, salmon gill’.

Gillnet

awx̣át núsuxay tamanuutpamá ‘gillnet for salmon’.

Ginger

awtašpamá ‘western wild ginger, Asarum caudatum‘.

Giraffe

k̓ʷáalk tánwat ‘long neck’.

Girdle

pinačaksksitpamá ~ pinačak̓ptpamá ~ pinačaq̓páwas.

Girl

pt̓ínits; pt̓ilíma ‘girls’; pt̓ilíyin ‘two girls’; x̣niłá ‘root digger, woman or girl’.

Give

šapápx̣ʷn ‘scatter out, give out (as at a funeral)’; yanwáyi ‘give up on, not have confidence in; surrender, give up (with reflexive)’.