528 terms start with “p

pawilawíix̣n

Race, run in a race. kutaš k̓í pápawilawiix̣ta wɨłq̓ámita ‘and presently we will race putting on our moccasins’. [NP /wlalwiqn/.]

pawilawíix̣t

Race. Spilyáy ináx̣ašwiya pawilawíix̣tki ‘Coyote challenged [him] to a race’; pawilawíix̣t wɨłq̓ámit ‘moccasin putting on race’. Also wilawíix̣t. [NP piwlalwíiqin /pí-wlalwiqn-t/.]

pášwin

Be high priced. pášwini ‘expensive’.

pášwini

Expensive, high priced, in demand. pášwini iwá tananmaamí wapáwat ‘the Indian outfit is expensive’; čí núsux iwá pášwini ača kú níix̣ iwá táanipa ku kúušx̣i šapátaawaypa ‘this salmon is in demand because it is good canned and also in freezing’.

pawisk̓alpłá

Earwig. Also mɨšyúpa paˀašłá.

páwiyak̓uk

Call a meeting, assemble a group. ipáwiyak̓ukša kuunák miyáwax̣ ‘the chief is assembling that [the people]’ (Jacobs 1929:232:12). Also used intransitively: ƛ̓áax̣ʷnam páwiyak̓ukta ‘you all will assemble’ (Jacobs 1929:212:6).

páwiyak̓ukt

Meeting, assembly, gathering. kúuknaš wačá páwyak̓ukt čná inmípa níitpa ‘at that time I had a gathering here in my house’; kunam čikúuk áq̓inunx̣a ana mɨná iwá tún páwiyak̓ukt ‘and today you see them wherever there is any gathering’. [NP píˀamkin /pí-ˀamkʷn-t/.]

páwiyalɨxssimit

Gathering as one, a coming together. [NP ˀamókin /ˀamkʷn-t/.]

páwiyapaa

Separate, part, fork. ipáwiyapaaša ɨščɨ́t ‘the road forks’. [NP /peˀx̣selí/.]

pawiyapaanáwas

Fork in the road. áx̣ʷaynam wiyánax̣tita pawiyapaanáwaspa ‘you will yet cry on the way at the cross roads’. [NP /peˀx̣selít/.]

páwšk̓uk

Camp together. páwšk̓ukšanaataš pɨ́t̓x̣anupa ‘we were camping together in the mountains’. [NP /wsaˀamkʷn/.]

páwšk̓ukt

Gathering. mɨ́taat łk̓ʷí páwšk̓ukt ‘three days camping’. [NP wisaˀmókin /wsaˀamkʷn-t/.]

páwluk

Body lice. [WS apɨ́lk; NW ɨpáwluk; apúlk; NP /ppéq/.]

páwɨnp

Handle, hold with the hand. ipáwɨnpša k̓píit ‘he is holding the ball’. [NP /ˀnépten/.]

páwɨnpat

Pine Creek, Washington.

páwšp

Knock unconscious with the hand. pápawšpa ‘he knocked him out’; ipáwšpaaš ‘he knocked me unconscious’.

páwqulik

Pound, mash. ápawqulikɨnk ‘mash it up!’. [Cf. NP /wepéwkuni/ ‘wrestle’ (Aoki 1994:907).]

pawsk̓ukáwas

Buckhorn camp, up on Power Ridge. It’s what they call “Picnic Ground”. Thomas Morning Owl.

pawɨ́tk

Halves, half and half. See also paˀíšat. [NP /paxk̓íma/.]

pawšuwałá

One who prepares the deceased for burial.