Menstruation, menstrual period. alxayxpamá ititámat ‘calendar’. [NP /ˀémees/; /péhisemtuks/.]
339 terms start with “a”
alyáwa
Wager, bet, bet in stick-game. alyáwašamaš čí útpas ‘I am betting you this blanket’; alyáwašamaš páx̣at ‘I’m betting you five dollars’; alyáwašaaš útpas ‘I am putting the blanket out for bet’; áwalyawašaaš paanáy ‘I am betting him’; paˀalyáwašaaš ‘they are betting me’; pápaˀalyawaša ‘they are playing the stick-game’; palyáwat ‘stickgame’. See also palyáwa. [NE ílyuun; NP /lóx̣mi/; alyáwa is perhaps a diminutive of aní ‘make’ plus directive -awa.]
áł
Generous. ɨmɨnɨwáy iwá k̓ʷáy ku áł ‘that one is is kind and generous’; čáw áł ‘not generous’; ałwí ‘be generous’. [Y ƛ̓íiš; ƛ̓iˀíiš; NP /ˀiqn/.]
-áł
Privative. Deverbative. ača čikúuk iwá at̓úk yáx̣t kútkut sapsik̓ʷanáł ‘because today it is hard to get work without an eductation’; čak̓ʷlkáł ‘unchewed’; čuunáł ‘without drinking’; iix̣áł ‘unclean’; lak̓ɨmiyáł ‘everlasting’; panaymunáł ‘cold, aloof’; payknáł ‘disobedient’; sɨnwiyáł ‘without speaking’; šuwináł ‘not learning from hard lessons’; tkʷatanáł ‘without eating, fasting’; twanpáł ‘uncombed’; wanáł ‘invisible’. [NP /-ey̓éy̓/.]
áłˀał
Fin, top fin, dorsal fin. [Y pɨ́c̓a ‘dorsal fin’.]
ałpípi
Douglas’ or Howell’s brodiaea. See anałpípi.
ałwí
Be generous. ałwíša wínš ‘the man is generous’; ałwiyáwa ‘dote on, favor’.
ałwiyáwa
Dote on, favor. paˀałwiyáwaša miyánaš ‘they are doting on their child’; ałwiyáwani miyánaš ‘a favored child’.
ám
Outside. Bound. ámčan ‘toward the outside’; ámčni ‘from or on the outside’. [NP /ˀémt-/.]
ám
Husband. ám ‘husband!’; ínmam ‘my husband’; ímam ‘your husband’; ám ‘(her) husband’; k̓ʷáy áwa ám ‘that is her husband’; tkʷátat iníya ámapa ‘she gave food to her husband’; ámin ‘with husband, married couple’; ámtayk ‘move in with in-laws’ (said of a woman); ámani ‘marry’ (of a woman). [NP /háma/ ‘man, husband’.]
-am
Times. lísxam ‘once’; nápam ‘twice’; mɨ́tam ‘three times’; pínapam ‘four times’; páx̣am ‘five times’; mɨ́laam ‘how many times?’. [NP /-hem/.]
-ám
Land feature formative in núwax̣am ‘burnt over ground’; šám ‘scree’; tamalám ‘rocky bar in river’; tiičám ‘land’; watám ‘lake’; Wayám ‘Celilo’; Wɨ́šx̣am ‘Wishram’. [Cf. NP /-em/ in /ˀmssem/ ‘rocky hillside’; /ˀuuyikem/ ‘shale rock’; /ˀwetem/ ‘lake’; /cam̓qʷam/ ‘point, corner, sharp angle’; /caayokam/ ‘pebbled beach’; /háwtikam/ ‘steep ground, cliff’; /héwtip̓em/ ‘hillside’; /kím̓olikam/ ‘guardian spirit mountain’; /meqsem/ ‘mountain’; /qemúynem/ ‘Wallowa Creek’; /simínekem/ ‘fork of river’; /tamalam/ ‘rocky bar’; /tkem/ ‘waterfall’; /toyam/ ‘hill top’; /tq̓isam/ ‘shore, bank’; /tx̣peˀem/ ‘prairie’; /tx̣sem/ ‘ridge’.]
amá
Island. See ɨmá.
-amáan
Pertaining to. čnamáan ‘pertaining to here, local’; kʷnamáan ‘pertaining to there’. Form of -pamá for determiners (see Beavert & Hargus 2009:31, 76). [NW -amánk; NP /-eme/.]
-aman
Accusative plural case. Suffixes to plural -ma, dual -in, and agentive -łá: kúušnašta áwɨnx̣a inmímaaman miyánašmaaman ‘thusly I tell my children’; k̓ʷáyš kʷɨ́ł áykɨnx̣ana inmímaaman nč̓ínč̓imaaman sɨ́nwityaw ‘that much I used to hear my elders speak’; kátkaatinaman inaknúwiša ‘she is taking care of two boys’; inákwinax̣ana tkʷaynpłáaman ‘he would take the hunters along’; ku pášapawinana Imatalamłáaman Háwtmikan ‘and he sent the Umatillas toward McKay Creek’.
ámčan
Toward the outside, outward. ámčan iwínaša ‘he is going outside’. [NP /ˀémtkek/.]
ámani
Definition:
Marry (of a woman).
Examples:
- ámaniya ‘she got married’;
- kutaš wíˀamanix̣ana ‘and we each would get married’;
- ámaniša Fredmíyaw ‘she is getting married to Fred’.
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[NP /hámani/; from *háma ‘man, husband’ plus *haní ‘make’.]
ámaniyawa
Marry (of a woman). ámaniyawaša kʷaaná wínš ‘she is marrying that man’; ínanaš ámaniyawata ‘she will marry me’. [NP /hamaniyúu/.]
amčaˀámča
Wampum. [NP /ˀamcaˀamca/.]
-amí
Genitive plural case. Suffixes after -ma, -in, -łá and certain kinship terms: k̓úsi áwa miyanašmaamí ‘the children have a horse’; k̓ʷáy áwa katkaatinamí ‘that belongs to the two boys’; Imatalamłaamí ‘of the Umatilla’; iłamí ‘your mother’s’.