Kidney. Also pronounced ak̓páyˀak̓pay. [Y sáylps; NP /qoplac/; cf. S áq̓paš ‘stomach’.]
344 terms start with “a”
ak̓ʷɨ́šak̓ʷš
Blood vessel, vein, artery. [NP /ppy/.]
-ál
Long, tall, far. čáal ‘this long, this tall, this far’; kʷáal ‘that long, that tall, that far’; máal ‘how long? how tall? how far?’. [NE -ˀál; NP /-hál/.]
ála
Paternal grandmother; woman’s son’s child. ála ‘grandmother! grandchild!’; naˀálas ‘my grandmother’; ínˀala ‘my grandchild’; ál ‘your grandmother’; ímˀala ‘your grandchild’; ála ‘(his/her) grandmother; her son’s child’; áwna wínaša alamíyaw ‘we’re going to grandmother’s (house)’; álayin pawínašana ‘he went with his grandmother’; iq̓ínušanaaš naˀálasanɨm ‘my grandmother saw me’; ínˀalayintaš wínašana ‘I was going with my grandchild’; kuš áykɨnx̣ana naˀálasmaaman ‘and I used to hear my grandmother’s people’. [NP /ˀéle/.]
alaˀála
Nettles, Urtica dioica; Devil’s club, Oplopanax horridum; poison oak, Toxicodendron diversiloba. anam kú áwɨnpta alaˀálaan kunam ččúkta ‘when you touch nettles you itch all over’. See also łamtq̓áx̣. [NW aláala; NP /wet̓etwet̓et/ ‘Urtica lyalli‘ (Aoki 1994:861); cf. NP /ˀalaˀala/ ‘grouseberry, Vaccinium scoparium‘ (Aoki 1994:964); NP /ˀala/ ‘fire’.]
aláašu
Place furthest from the door of a tepee or lodge. patkʷátax̣ana kʷnáaláašupa ku paˀílukɨnx̣ana papáčupa ‘they used to eat in the back of the lodge and build the fire in the middle’; aláašupa ‘in the back of the lodge’. [NP /ˀalaso/.]
alačáwi
Turn around, look back. áwalačawik ‘look back at them!’; túkinš alačáwiša ‘why am I looking back?’; áwalačawišaaš yáamašna ‘I am looking back at the deer’; wiyáalačawi ‘look back’. [NP /q̓ílwn/; alačáwi is *hélek ‘back’ plus verbalizer *-éwi.]
alašík
Turtle, painted turtle, Chrysemys picta. [NP /ˀacik/; cf. Salish, e.g., Upper Chehalis ˀalašík; Moses Columbian ˀarasíkʷ (Kinkade 1991:3).]
álakʷ
Throw back, rid, abolish, destroy. See ánakʷ.
alám
Generic bunch grass. See also waskú. [NP /pqs/.]
alamíla
Water-hemlock, Cicuta douglasii. Poisonous.
alapáp
Western screech owl, Otus kennicottii (?); northern pygmy owl, Glaucidium gnoma (?); northern saw-whet owl, Aegolius acadicus (?). See also úus. Hunn 1990:323 [NP /sax̣lat´mo/ (also palx̣óockin̓ /plx̣óckiˀns/) ‘screech owl, Otus asio‘; cf. also NP /wiq̓étwiq̓et/ ‘prairie owl’ (?); NP /k̓pk̓pno/ ‘barn owl, screech owl’ (?).]
alapíšaš
Death camas, Zigadenus spp. (e.g., Z. venenosus and perhaps Z. paniculatus, perhaps also Z. glaucus and Z. elegans); usually grows in drier areas than camas. kaƛ̓iyawit̓áwas iwá alapíšaš ‘death camas is a poison’.
aláy
Low place, toward water, bottom of valley, shore, beach. miyánašma pawinanúuša aláypa ‘children are swimming at the shore’; aláy iwá čúuš ‘the water is lower’; aw kú čná aláy ƛ̓áax̣ʷ táatpas patáyax̣nayiya ‘then here ashore they found all his clothing’; iwátax̣na aláy tiičám aš kʷná ín táwyaša ‘it would be a low place where I am living’; áwna wínaša aláykan ‘we are going toward shore’; aláypa čúušpa ‘down by the water’. Opposite of áx̣mi. [NW álayt (Jacobs 1937:31.28.3, pg. 76); NP /ˀalláy/.]
aláyi
Go down to a river or stream. paˀaláyiša ‘they are going down to the river’; waaláyi ‘run down to the river’. [NP /ˀalláyi/.]
aláyma
Frenchman, halfbreed. aláymama ‘Frenchmen, halfbreeds’. [NP /ˀalláyma/.]
alipás
A plant that looks like a saxifrage. See also anipáš.
alpaˀálpa
Alfalfa, Medicago sativa. [NP /ˀalpaˀálpa/.]
alpaˀalpawáakuł
Big-head clover, Trifolium macrocephalum. [NP /ˀalpaˀálpa/.]
aluq̓át
Frog, Pacific tree frog, Hyla regilla; the “frog” on a horse’s leg. paˀínɨmɨnx̣a aluq̓átma ‘the frogs croak’; aluq̓atmí útpas ‘green fresh water algae’. [NP wex̣wéqt /wqwqt/; cf. /ˀálok̓at/ ‘young male mountain sheep, Ovis canadensis‘.]