Definition:
Trees, plants.
Examples:
- itáx̣šiša pɨ́taat ‘the trees are waking up’;
- áwaqitatak kʷaaná pɨ́taatna ‘go look for those trees’;
- ƛ̓áax̣ʷna pɨ́taatna páyamuxlaykɨnx̣ana ‘it [the flood] kept taking out all the trees’;
- ana kú išátɨmix̣a ku kúuk ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwɨ́šayčɨnx̣a ayáyat q̓ínupa pɨ́taat ‘when it gets to be fall then all the trees become beautiful to see’;
- pɨ́taat ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pináˀikiikɨnx̣a pɨnmikíin apɨ́łapłki ‘[in the fall] all the trees clean themselves of their leaves’;
- ƛ̓áax̣ʷ tún pɨtaatpɨ́taat ‘every tree’.
See more:
pátaat ‘tree’
[NP /tewlikt/; cf. Also /petis/ ‘limb, branch’; /ptn/ ‘bush, brush, twigs’.]
Blue grouse, Dendragapus obscurus. Umatilla mostly tuyá. ík̓ʷak kákya pɨtí ikúšana áčaaš pɨnmínk ‘that bird, the blue grouse, was doing his own eyes’ (Jacobs 1937:36.2.2, pg. 88). [NP /tuy̓é/.]
Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus. [NP /pptic/.]
Brush, bushes, brushy area, bushy area, vegetation. Also pɨ́tɨn. [WS patúlpatul; NP /ptn/.]
Ankle. See k̓uxsk̓úxs. [NP /ˀoq̓oqc/.]
Puncture. ipɨ́tqʷtkša ‘he is puncturing (it)’; áptqʷtkɨnk ‘puncture it!’.
Make holes or dots (as with pen or pencil). ipɨ́tqʷtqʷša ‘he is making dots’; pɨ́tqʷtqʷni ‘perforated, dotted’. See also pátqʷ ‘make a dot’.
Set, place, set dishes. Distributive object. iptúka tikáyna ‘she set the dishes’.
Posts, poles stuck upright in the ground. ptúkš palkliktpamá ‘fence posts’. See pátukš.
Be situated. Distributive inanimate subject. iptún tkʷátat ‘the food is set out’; paptún táp̓aš ‘the pine trees are set out’. [NP /wíˀpetun/.]
Biggs, Oregon. ptɨx̣šiłáma ‘people from Biggs’.
Curl up. ptɨ́x̣ʷšaaš ‘I am curling up’; ptɨ́x̣ʷni ‘curled up’. [Y pɨ́tx̣ʷn; NP /wq̓umn/; cf. NP bound root /pt̓qʷ/ ‘stretch’ (Aoki 1994:557); pat̓óx /pt̓´kʷ/ ‘smooth, stretched out’ (Aoki 1994:511).]
Stab, pierce. áptyak ‘stab him!’; ipɨ́tyanaaš ilamaašmúknɨm ‘the bumblebee stung me’; waxalxalíyanɨmš ipɨ́tyana ‘a spider bit me’; pɨtyat̓áwas ‘spear’. [NP /ˀpt´yan/.]
Spear. [NE pɨtyat̓úus; NP /tkʷéy̓pt̓et̓es/; /ketis/ ‘barbed spear’.]
Mink, Martes vison. U also kuucpúu. [NE kuucpúu; NP /kuucpúu/.]
Hit, strike. Bound. tunápt̓a ‘kick’; túpt̓a ‘kick repeatedly’. [NP /ˀpt̓e/.]
Girls. See pt̓ínits. [NE ápt̓ilima; NP pipít̓in̓.]
Girl. Sometimes reduces to pt̓íits. ana kú ix̣nɨ́mˀuyix̣a pt̓ínic ku kúuk iwapáwx̣inx̣a pɨnmíin kápɨn ku wápas ku x̣nít ku ana tún itáatpasišana ku ƛ̓áax̣ʷ iwapáwx̣inx̣a ‘when the girl first digs then she gives away her digging stick and bag and roots and whatever she was wearing and all she gives away’; wačáš kskɨ́s pt̓íits ‘I was a small girl’; ku patáwɨnpa kʷaaná pt̓íisaan ‘and they got that girl’; tmáy iwá pt̓ínits ‘the girl is a young woman’; pt̓ilíma ‘girls’; pt̓ilíyin ‘two girls’; pt̓ínits k̓usik̓úsi ‘female dog’. [NE túux̣anat (plural: ápt̓ilima); NW pt̓íniks (plural: pt̓ilíma); NP /pt̓ín̓/, /pt̓íni-/ (plural /pp´t̓in̓/, /pp´t̓i-/).]
