254 terms start with “n

nákwaanaynač

Carry inside, bring inside. [NW nákwiinaynak.]

nákwaasikayk

Stay at home to take care of. nákwaasikaykt kʷyáam walptáykt ‘staying at home taking care of the true songs’.

nákwaax̣ʷaami

Take up, lift up. [NW nákwiiłtx̣; NP /ˀnakáhsa/.]

nákwa(k)

Be with, stay with. ínx̣aynaš inákwaša inmípa níitpa ‘my friend is staying with me at my house’; pánakwaka ‘he stayed with him’.

nákwalapaluun

Hold sitting in the water. Also náksɨmwalapaluun.

nákwat̓uyi

Lead at a wáašat service. inákwat̓uyiša ‘he is leading the service’; inákwat̓uyiya tkʷátat ‘she took the lead in regard to the food’; nakwat̓uyiłá. ‘leader at service’. [NP /ˀnahtalapósan/ ‘lead the prayer’.]

nakwat̓uyiłá

Leader at the longhouse wáašat service, lead food server. Also pronounced nakwatˀuyiłá.

nákwawtuk

Baby-sit, stay over night with. inákwawtuka miyánašna ‘she baby-sat the child’; inákwawtukɨnx̣anaaš inmínɨm pátnɨm ‘my older sister used to baby-sit me’. [NE nákwuukša; NP /ˀnéhwehnen/.]

nákwayna

Fly with. [NP /ˀnehweyékeˀeyk/.]

nákwayx̣ti

Run carrying, run with. wiyánakwayx̣ti ‘pick up and run’.

nákwina

Take, take along, bring along, take the lead. nákwinanɨm ‘bring!’; ánakwinašanaataš miyánašmaaman ‘we were taking the children’; ku kúuk patánakwinax̣a ‘and then they brought them’; inákwinax̣ana tkʷaynpłáaman ‘he would take the hunters along’; ku čáw mún miyánašma panákwinax̣ana wánptyaw ‘and they never used to take their children to the medicine singing’; čáwnam mún nákwinata miyánaš wánptyaw ‘you should never take your child to the medicine singing’; pɨ́n k̓í inákwinata čikúuk ‘he will carry it (take the lead) today’; napúsasaan patánakwinana ‘they took my grandfather’; táwnakwina ‘take along at night, bring at night’. [NP /ˀnéhnen/.]

nakwinałá

Longhouse leader. See also nakwat̓uyiłá.

nákwinaninn

Run away with, abscond with. [NP /ˀnéhwuyn/.]

nákwiyanawi

Arrive with, bring. [NP /ˀnáxpayk/.]

nákwiyanknik

Take around. ánakwiyanknikayišanam wáwnakʷšaš ‘you are taking his body around’. [NP /wyéˀnehlklyn/.]

nákwuukša

Baby-sit. inákwuukšax̣anaaš ‘she used to baby-sit me’. NE [CR nákwawtuk; NP /ˀnéhwehnen/.]

nákyat̓a

Take to another camp, move from one place to another.

nák̓ninn

Haul by, go about with, travel around with, wander about with. inák̓ninx̣ana táymu ‘he used to deliver messages’; ának̓ninšaaš ‘I’m taking him around’; taymunak̓ninłá ‘message carrier’. See also nákninn. [NP /ˀnek´knik/ ~ /ˀneken/ ‘carry about’.]

nak̓únk

John Day Valley desert parsley, Lomatium minus.

nák̓ʷała

Be happy vocally. [Cf. NP /téˀey̓ck/ ‘make happy by singing or talking’.]