Village on Alder Creek near Alderdale, Washington. Name refers to ‘sand fleas’.
339 terms start with “a”
apɨ́ls
Apple.
apɨ́łapł
Leaf, leaves; weeds. Also apɨ́łˀapł. ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a tiičámpa mítični apɨ́łapłpa ‘it grows on the ground under the leaves’; pináwšuwanx̣a pɨnmíin wáwnakʷšaš ku kúuk apɨ́łapł áwatɨnx̣a ‘its [the tree’s] body readies itself and then its leaves go out’; apɨ́łapł áƛ̓iyawi ‘its leaves have died’; pɨnmíin apɨ́łapł iyáx̣ʷax̣a wawáx̣ɨmitna ‘its leaves wait for spring’; pinátaatpasix̣a pɨnmikíin apɨ́łapłki ‘it [the tree] dresses itself with its leaves’; pɨ́taat ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pináˀikiikɨnx̣a pɨnmikíin apɨ́łapłki ‘[in the fall] all the trees clean themselves of their leaves’; tap̓ašmí apɨ́łapł ‘pine needles’. [NP /psqu/.].
apɨ́n
Head louse. čáwmaš wá tún apɨ́n ‘you don’t have any head lice’. [NW ɨpɨ́n; NP /ple/.]
apɨ́n
The aforementioned. Reduced form of k̓ʷapɨ́n.
apɨ́ni
Have head lice. ana kú paˀapɨ́nix̣ana ‘when they would have head lice’. [NP /plewi/.]
áps
Flint. tanínšay iwáƛ̓ɨmtka ápsna ‘he chipped the flint for an arrowhead’. [NP /ˀ´ps/.]
apɨ́tapɨt
Palouse Falls. [For possible Cayuse etymology, cf. áapit ‘rock’ (Aoki 1998b); for Nez Perce cf. /hapt̓is/ ‘skilled in hunting’.]
-aptit
By tens. náaptit ‘twenty’; mɨtáaptit ‘thirty’; pináaptit ‘forty’; pax̣áaptit ‘fifty’; uylsxáaptit ‘sixty’; uynáaptit ‘seventy’; uymɨtáaptit ‘eighty’; k̓uysáaptit ‘ninety’; putáaptit ‘hundred’. [NP /-eˀéptit/.]
apúlk
Body lice. [WS apɨ́lk; NE páwluk; some NW ɨpáwluk; NP /ppéq/.]
apúlki
Have body lice. ku paˀapúlkɨnx̣ana ‘and they used to have body lice’.
apɨ́x̣
Skin, hide. patánakwaašayix̣a twínpas ku kúušx̣i apɨ́x̣ ‘they dance with his rifle and similarly the hide’; áyaq̓ʷɨcka apɨx̣mí tútanik ‘the hair came off the hide’; kúušx̣i paˀaníx̣ana apx̣mí ‘in the same way they would make it of hide’; išapáyaq̓ʷɨcka apɨ́x̣ ‘he stripped the hide of its hair’; sikinmí apɨ́x̣ ‘badger hide’; pláš ímiiki apɨ́x̣ ‘white buckskin’. [NP /meˀeqs/ ‘fresh untanned hide’; /qillu/ ‘dried untanned hide’; /wispol/ ‘tanned hide’.]
apšɨ́x̣
Stingy. Cf. NW apšɨ́x̣ ‘tick’ (the parasite). [NP ˀípsex̣ /ˀpsq/.]
aqɨ́š
Eye matter, pus. See ɨqɨ́š.
áquu
Daddy.
áq̓paš
Stomach, tripe. ak̓páyak̓pay ‘kidney’. [Y áq̓paaš; NP /qoˀopas/.]
aq̓úwi
Cough. aq̓úwiša ‘he is coughing’; paˀaq̓úwiya ‘they had a cold’. [N tanúx̣i; Y q̓uq̓úwi; NP /ˀox̣oˀóx̣an/.]
aq̓úwit
Cough. itáqawqišaaš aq̓úwitnɨm ‘the cough is making me sick’; ipayúwiša aq̓úwitki ‘he’s sick with a cough’; aq̓úwitpax̣i ‘in the same way when coughing’. [NE tanúx̣it; Y q̓uq̓úwit; NP ˀox̣oˀóx̣a /ˀox̣oˀóx̣ant/.]
aq̓uwitpamá
Cough medicine. qawšqáwš iwá aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘lovage is a cough medicine’.