192 terms start with “m”

muláytt

Boiling.

mulayttpamá

Boiling pot. Also mulaytt̓áwas.

Múlišinma

Lehman Hot Springs south of the Umatilla Reservation near Ukiah, North Fork of the John Day River, John Day area.

Múlmul

Ritter Hot Springs in John Day River drainage; Fort Simcoe, Washington. wɨšánataataš Múlmulyaw ‘we’re going to move to Ritter Hot Springs’.

Mulmulłá

Place on the Columbia after níšx̣t (Paterson) above the náwawi (Alderdale) curve. ku itkʷapaničašána Ilatp̓áama Mulmulłákni ‘and Ilatp’áama signed (the Treaty) from Mulmulłá‘.

múlmuln

Bubble up. imúlmulša ‘it is bubbling up’; imúlmulna čúuš ‘the water bubbled up’. [Cf. NP /múlli/ ‘be a riffle’.]

mún

Definition:

When? whenever, sometime, anytime.

Function:

Used to ask questions, connect to another sentence with ana, or to mean never or sometimes with the fixed combinations.

Examples:

  1. múnam wínatat̓aša ‘when are you wanting to go?’;
  2. ana mún iwáta wánpi ku iwánpta páx̣at anwíčt áw k̓ʷáyk̓a áw uynápt anwíčt ana máal páwaničayisa piiní wánpašin ‘whenever he will be sung he will sing five years or seven years – however long he the song names for him’;
  3. ataš mún wínata ‘whenever we go’;
  4. ana mún ‘whenever…’;
  5. čáw mún ‘never’;
  6. pamún ‘sometimes’.

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[NP /m´wa/.]

mún

Call out. Bound. náymun ‘establish kinship’; múnayt ‘move in with in-laws’ (said of a man); tanaymún ‘tell, hire, preach’. [NP /mún/ ‘call, invite, summon’.]

mún

Root of muláyt ‘boil’; munáyt ‘steam’. See múl.

munáyt

Steam. imunáytša čúuš ‘the water is steaming’. See also muláyt.

munɨmmúnɨm

Red root, snowbrush, deerbrush, sticky-laurel, Ceanothus velutinus. The leaves provide a medicine for arthritis, but there are complications with overuse. It is boiled for use as a wash after coming out of the sweathouse, and a medicine was made for horses. [CR wíč̓akƛ; NW wɨnɨmwɨ́nɨm.]

múps

Fawn. [NP /muˀpc/.]

múq̓a

Great blue heron, Ardea herodias. múq̓anɨmnam ináčičawata miyálas ‘a great blue heron will bring the baby to you’. Umatilla generally uses q̓ʷášq̓ʷaš. [NP /múq̓e/ ~ /muq̓e/ ~ /m´q̓ʷe/.]

múq̓ʷaytš

Rotting salmon. [N múq̓ʷaykš; P múq̓ʷikš.]

músmuscɨn

Cattle, cow, buffalo. ku páyš paamíin músmuscɨn áwašta tímaniyaw tiičámyaw ‘and maybe their cattle will enter the reservation’; áwaanaytɨnk músmuscɨnma ‘milk the cows!’; itamáštka kskɨ́s músmuscɨn ‘he roped a little calf’; musmuscɨnmí šapáwašɨmux̣t ‘yoke of oxen’; waamá músmuscɨn ‘bison’. [NP /múh/.]

múuł

A little bit, a few. ku patúx̣šana ana kú paq̓ínuna múuł ‘and they were returning when they saw a little bit’; kuš kíilawiya múułmuuł tkʷátat ‘and I tasted some of each food’; wašnaš múuł sɨ́nwit ánč̓ax̣i ‘I have a few words again’.

Múwat̓a

Modoc.

mux

Puff. Onomatopoeic sound of smoking.

muxláy

Fly, housefly, Musca domestica. Umatilla also muklaymúklay. k̓usimaamí muxláy ‘horsefly’ (see lɨxlúy). [NE max̣núy; NW muxlí; NP /cilyek/; cf. NP /lx̣luy/ ‘horsefly’; cf. mɨx̣ʷláy ‘appear, emerge’ (bound).]

muxláymuxlay

Dutchman’s britches, Dicentra cucularia. “Looks like a lot of flies.”