Terms starting with “g” – Page 6 – Umatilla Language Online Dictionary

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English:

Grave

tamíčt ‘burying, burial place’.

tamalám ‘rocky bar in river, dry stream, gravel bar, rocks by a creek, pile of rocks, rocky bottom’.

šíš ‘mush, thick soup, porriage’; lakamíin ‘stew, flour thickened stew, salmon gravy’.

lakamíini ‘make lakamíin‘.

paˀáx̣; muxmúx ‘elderly, white (of hair)’.

kukúk ‘brain; gray hair’.

cpúkux ‘Perisoreus canadensis‘.

spáta ‘graze (of horses, cattle)’.

yápaš ‘fat, grease, oil’; nusuxmí yápaš ‘salmon grease’; yápaš tútanikay ‘hair grease’.

íšq̓uk ‘rub on oil or grease, anoint’.

nɨ́šx̣t ‘Sarcobatus vermiculatus‘; č̓ɨší ‘antelope brush, Purshia tridentata‘.

yápaši ‘with fat’.

nč̓í ‘big, large’.

mayknɨ́č̓i ‘bigger, larger’.

x̣áašwit.

x̣áaš; qnɨ́pni ‘selfish with food, eating so much that others are deprived’.

x̣áašwi ‘be greedy’; qnɨ́pn ‘be gluttonous, greedy to eat’.

x̣ɨ́x̣uš.

lɨlúy ‘body grime, dead skin, the dirt that is rubbed off in the sweathouse’.

kiˀíiswi ‘smile’.