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/.]
528 terms start with “p”
ptís
Muskrat, Ondatra zibethicus. [NP /pptic/.]
pšɨtłk̓ʷí
Father’s Day.
ptɨ́n
Brush, bushes, brushy area, bushy area, vegetation. Also pɨ́tɨn. [WS patúlpatul; NP /ptn/.]
pɨtpɨ́tnu
Ankle. See k̓uxsk̓úxs. [NP /ˀoq̓oqc/.]
pɨ́tqʷɨtk
Puncture. ipɨ́tqʷtkša ‘he is puncturing (it)’; áptqʷtkɨnk ‘puncture it!’.
pɨ́tqʷtqʷn
Make holes or dots (as with pen or pencil). ipɨ́tqʷtqʷša ‘he is making dots’; pɨ́tqʷtqʷni ‘perforated, dotted’. See also pátqʷ ‘make a dot’.
ptúk
Set, place, set dishes. Distributive object. iptúka tikáyna ‘she set the dishes’.
ptúkš
Posts, poles stuck upright in the ground. ptúkš palkliktpamá ‘fence posts’. See pátukš.
ptún
Be situated. Distributive inanimate subject. iptún tkʷátat ‘the food is set out’; paptún táp̓aš ‘the pine trees are set out’. [NP /wíˀpetun/.]
ptɨ́x̣ši
Biggs, Oregon. ptɨx̣šiłáma ‘people from Biggs’.
ptɨ́x̣ʷn
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).]
pɨ́tya
Stab, pierce. áptyak ‘stab him!’; ipɨ́tyanaaš ilamaašmúknɨm ‘the bumblebee stung me’; waxalxalíyanɨmš ipɨ́tyana ‘a spider bit me’; pɨtyat̓áwas ‘spear’. [NP /ˀpt´yan/.]
pɨtyałá
Spearer, one who spears.
pɨtyat̓áwas
Spear. [NE pɨtyat̓úus; NP /tkʷéy̓pt̓et̓es/; /ketis/ ‘barbed spear’.]
ptyáw
Mink, Martes vison. U also kuucpúu. [NE kuucpúu; NP /kuucpúu/.]
pt̓a
Hit, strike. Bound. tunápt̓a ‘kick’; túpt̓a ‘kick repeatedly’. [NP /ˀpt̓e/.]
pt̓ilíma
Girls. See pt̓ínits. [NE ápt̓ilima; NP pipít̓in̓.]
pt̓ínits
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-/).]
pt̓ux̣
Stretch. Bound. čápt̓ux̣ ‘stretch’; sapáwaapt̓ux̣ ‘iron (clothes)’; tkʷápt̓ux̣ ‘stretch out the arm’; tunápt̓ux̣ ‘stretch out the leg’; wáapt̓ux̣ ‘stretch out’. [NP /pt̓qʷ/ (Aoki 1994:557); pat̓óx /pt̓´kʷ/ ‘smooth, stretched out’ (Aoki 1994:511); cf. ptɨ́x̣ʷn ‘curl up’.]