Old, white (of hair). muxmúxnanam áwɨnx̣a puppy ‘you call an old one puppy?’. [WS mx̣múx̣.]
192 terms start with “m”
múyn
Steam, evaporate. ímuyk ‘wring out and stretch’. [NP /múyn/.]
mɨ́x̣
Paternal uncle. Bound. mɨ́x̣a ‘uncle!’; namɨ́xas ‘my uncle’; ɨmɨ́x̣ ‘your uncle’; pímx̣ ‘(his/her) uncle’; namɨx̣asanmí áwa ‘it’s my paternal uncle’s’; namɨ́xasintaš wiyánawiya ‘I arrived with my uncle’; inákwinana pímx̣pa ‘she saw her paternal uncle’; pímx̣pa isík̓ʷatana ‘he went to show his uncle’. [NP /mq/.]
mɨx̣ɨ́š
Yellow. mɨx̣ɨ́š pawá ‘they’re yellow’; kúušx̣i áwa latít mɨx̣ɨ́š ‘in the same way its flower is yellow’; ku awínšma pawapáwax̣ana šwápa mɨx̣ɨ́ški šápɨnčaški ‘and the men would decorate themselves on the forehead with yellow face paint’; awínšma pamáwapawax̣ana mɨx̣ɨ́ški ku tílaakima luc̓áki čná ‘the men used to decorate themselves with yellow and the women with red here (on their hair)’; íi náptik pawačá áwtni mɨx̣ɨ́š ku luc̓á ‘yes, both the yellow and the red are tabooed’; ílamx̣šk ‘smoke hide’; šapámx̣šk ‘dye’; mɨx̣ɨ́š šápɨnčaš ‘yellow face paint’; mɨx̣šmí x̣ax̣áykʷ ‘gold coin, gold piece’. [NP /mqsm´qs/; cf. /mqs/ ‘gall’.]
mɨx̣šlí
Wolf lichen, Letharia vulpina; Hamblin’s desert parsley, Lomatium farinosum var. hambleniae.
mɨx̣ɨ́ł
Western dwarf mistletoe, Arceuthobium campylopodum.
mɨx̣ɨ́šn
Be yellow. imɨx̣ɨ́šna ‘it turned yellow’.
mɨx̣šní
Hamblin’s desert parsley, Lomatium farinosum var. hambleniae.
mɨx̣ʷláy
Appear, emerge. Bound. čámx̣ʷlayk ‘lift out of the ground’; náčamx̣ʷlik ‘turn over rocks on the ground while singing’ (Jacobs 1931:192); yámuxlayk ‘uproot (of flood)’. [NP /mx̣ʷl´y/ ‘appear, emerge’ (used with /ku/); NP /mxʷlín/ ‘perspire, sweat’.]
mɨšyú
Ear. mɨšyúpa paˀašłá ‘earwig’ (Hunn 1990:313). [NE mɨc̓yú; NP /mc̓yo/.]
mɨšyúnaq̓it
Ear lobe. pápškt mɨšyúnaq̓itpa ‘piercing the ear’.
mɨšyunút
Without ears, heedless, disobedient. čáwnam mɨšyunút wáta ‘don’t be disobedient’. [NE mɨc̓yunút; NP /mc̓yonót/.]