192 terms start with “m”

m-

Ground, soil, roots. Jacobs 1931:174 máana ‘go to dig roots for a day’; mɨ́c̓ay ‘root’; mɨƛ̓ɨ́ƛ̓k ‘mud’; ɨmí ‘gopher, mole’.

-m

Definition:

Towards to the speaker or the speaker side. Also has the meaning of appearing up, coming out of, or an action suddenly comes up to the speaker.

Function:

Cislocative directional. After vowel. Attach to verbs.

Example:

  1. wínam (or wínɨm) ‘come!’;
  2. ášɨm ‘come in!’;
  3. yíknɨm ‘hear me!’;
  4. páyknɨm ‘hear me!’;
  5. wánwim ‘come down!’;
  6. wáwnayim ‘excuse me!’;
  7. sápsik̓ʷanɨm sɨ́nwit ‘teach me the language’;
  8. wɨ́npatam čí útpas ‘come get this blanket!’;
  9. tkʷátatamtk ‘come and eat!’;
  10. wáawiyanawiyawamtk ‘come stop in for a while!’;
  11. wáatkʷatamtk ‘come eat!’;
  12. ku iyáwaaypx̣ɨma ‘and he came floating downstream’;
  13. ana k̓ʷapɨ́n míimi pášapawinama naamímaaman nč̓ínč̓imaaman ‘the aforementioned who long ago had our ancestors come here’;
  14. panáytimaaš ‘I came up’;
  15. ttáwax̣nɨmaaš ‘I grew up here’;
  16. iwámš ‘he is coming’;
  17. pátwanɨmta ɨsípin x̣áwšin ‘her younger sister the cous will come following her [the celery]’;
  18. itúnišama ‘he was coming upstream’;
  19. ix̣áyx̣šamš ‘it is dawning’;
  20. iq̓ínwatax̣amšnaš ‘she comes to see me’;
  21. ku ánč̓ax̣i iwáanaynačtux̣ʷɨnx̣ama ‘and he would come back inside again’.

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–kik (translocative directional)

[NP /-m/.]

mɨš-

With the ear, in hearing. mɨšayáya ‘be happy hearing’; mɨškʷyámk ‘believe’; mɨšqítwa ‘pay attention’; mɨššúkʷa ‘understand’; mɨštamánwi ‘understand’; mɨštk̓ʷɨ́k ‘remember correctly’; mɨšyú ‘ear’. [NP /ms-/.]

-ma

Human plural, plural. inmíma náymuma ‘my relatives’; miyánašma ‘children’; nč̓ínč̓ima ‘elders, ancestors’; kátkaatma ‘boys’; Hawtmiłáma ‘McKay Creek people’; ku kʷná patáwyašana inmíma nč̓ínč̓ima ‘and my ancestors were living there’; ásapsik̓ʷasanaaš miyánašmaaman sɨnwitmaamíki ‘I was teaching the children about the languages’; ana pát iwá ƛ̓aax̣ʷmaamí x̣nitmaamí ‘who is the older sister of all the roots’; tanánma miimáma ‘the old people’. [NP /-me/ (limited use in NP).]

-ma

Gentilic: people from. aláyma ‘Frenchman’; aláymama ‘French people’.

-má

Source. aluwimá ‘from last year’; čnamá ‘local person’; miimá ‘old’; wat̓uyimá ‘oldest’; x̣ʷaamá ‘golden eagle’. [NW -mánk; NP /-me/, /-m̓e/.]

máš

Cereal, mush. [English mush.]

=maš

Marks possessor in intransitive clauses: k̓úsimaš wá ‘it’s your horse’; čáwmaš wá imíin níit ‘it is not your house’; mánmaš wá tkʷaynptpamá táatpas ‘where are your hunting clothes?’; ačanam kú ttáwax̣ta kumaš wáta miyánaš ‘because you will grow up you will have a child’; amaš mɨná wá ayčtpamá ‘wherever your seat is’; amaš šín wačá imíin tíla ‘whoever was your grandfather’; kumaš kʷná łq̓íwita ‘and yours will play there’; wát̓inam wášata kumaš wáta imíin ‘you will ride ahead and he’ll be yours’; kumaš čáw wá imíin ‘and it is not yours’. Marks action from 1st to 2nd person in transitive clauses: kumaš áw wiláalakʷta ‘and now I will leave you’; kumaš tamápayškta ‘and I will tell on you’; x̣ax̣áykʷmaš níya ‘I gave you money’; q̓ínwayišanamaš pyáp ‘I saw your older brother’; čnámaš naknúwiyayiša imíin sɨ́nwit ‘here I shall take care of your words for you’; kumaš ničáyita tikáy ‘and I’ll give you a plate’. With imperatives and hortatives: amaš áwaaq̓inwatak ‘go have a look at them!’; amaš ímč̓a ílukas wáawɨnpatak ‘you go also to get wood!’; amaš wát̓uyi ‘you may go ahead’. [NP /-mek/; Klamath min (Barker 1963b:32).]

máˀ

Give me!

máal

How long? how far? however long, however far. máal kʷná ikútkutšata ‘how long will he be working there?’; máalnam wínaša ‘how far are you going?’; máalsɨmk̓as wá ‘how far am I now?’; máal paq̓ínunx̣a paamíin ttáwax̣t ‘how far do they see their pedigree?’; máalnam ttáwax̣ɨn ‘how tall have you grown?’; máalna iwaníčayita náaman łk̓ʷí ‘how far will he name the day for us?’ (i.e., ‘how long will we live?’); watx̣ɨ́naš wɨ́npta núsux aš máal ín táwyaša ‘will I catch salmon as long as I am living?’; kʷašta kú máalsɨmk̓a ásapsik̓ʷasa miyánašmaaman ‘and then however much longer I am teaching the children’; ku máal áša ‘and he went in however long’; ana máal ‘however long, however far’. [NE maˀál(k); NP /mahál/.]

máamɨn

Appaloosa horse. máamɨn k̓úsi ‘Mormon horse’; máamɨn miimánu ‘spotted owl, Strix occidentalis‘. [NP /máamin/; probably from Mormon (Bruce Rigsby: “That’s what several old men told me in Lapwai in summer, 1962.”).]

máan

Definition:

Toward where? toward wherever, toward somewhere, toward anywhere.

Function:

Versative case.

Examples:

máannam wínaša ‘where are you going?’;

máan pawíšapawinaša ‘where are they sending each?’;

máanpam áw tmíyuna ‘how did you decide now?’;

čáwtaš máan wɨšánaša ‘we are not going anywhere’;

kuna kúuk iwíniča ana máan ‘and then we buried each wherever’;

ana máan pašúkʷaša ‘as far as they know’;

ačataš kú čáw máan wínax̣ana ‘because we wouldn’t go anywhere’;

máan iwaníša tanánki čí ‘what is this called in Indian?’;

ánč̓a máan ‘in another direction’;

pamáan ‘in every direction’;

maaní ‘toward where?’ (emphatic);

máal ‘how far? how long?’ (length). See also zero ablaut base mn-.

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[NW míin; NP /mnépi/.]

máašn

Unidentified root of lámaašn ‘sting, bite (of insects)’.