86 terms start with “q

qátamawašaša

Catch a ride with. iqátamawašašanaaš ‘she caught a ride with me’.

qátamčanwi

Fall, fall down. aw kú pɨnmíin apɨ́łapł áqatamčanwix̣a ‘then their leaves fall down’; aw kú áqatamčanwix̣a latít tiičámyaw ‘then its flower drops off to the ground’; ƛ̓áax̣ʷ tútanik áqatamčanwix̣a ‘all his hair falls out’; ku kʷná iqátamčanwiya nakałas ‘and there my mother fell down’; íqatamčanwi ‘drop from the air’. [N tx̣átamčanwi; Y qátamkanwi; NP /tqec̓´llyk/.]

qáti-

Sitting, on one’s seat. qátikʷštik ‘miss chair (when trying to sit)’; qátiwaaničanwi ‘slide down while sitting’. [NW x̣áti-.]

qátikʷštik

Miss one’s seat sitting down. iqátikʷštika aycáwasna ‘he missed the chair sitting down’. [WS qáwašɨmničanwi.]

qátiwaaničanwi

Slide down in sitting position. iqátiwaaničanwiša ‘he is sliding down on his seat’; iqátiwaaničanwiša łq̓iwitpamápa ‘he is sliding down the playground slide’; qatiwaaničanwit̓áwas ‘playground slide’.

qatiwaaničanwit̓áwas

Playground slide.

qátkʷata

Eat suddenly or unexpectedly. iqátkʷataša ‘he dropped in and is eating’.

qátkʷaynak

Fall down. Inanimate. iqátkʷaynaka ílukas ‘the stick fell down’.

qátk̓ʷaninn

Be left walking around. iqátk̓ʷananx̣ana ‘he would be left walking around’.

qátuti

Stop, stand still. qátutik ‘stop!’; iqátutiša káas ‘the train is stopping’; ku aw kú iqátutiya ‘and then he stood still’; išapáqatutiša wayx̣tiłá ‘he is stopping his car’. [NP /tlqn/.]

qáwa(č)

Suddenly be, be there by chance. ku aw kú miyánašma áqawača ‘and then suddenly she had children’; yúuk iqáwa ‘he is over there’. [NE tx̣úu(č); NW tqáwa(č); NP /tqéwe(k)/.]

qáwapawx̣in

Lose. aš kú qáwapawx̣ina ‘when I lost mine’. [NE tx̣úupawx̣in; NP /tquupéwqin/.]

qáwat̓a

Slip and fall, fall and hit the ground. qáwat̓atanam ‘you’ll slip and fall’; kʷná nč̓ípa náx̣titpa čáwnam yalmílk tk̓ʷanáytita páyšnam qáwat̓ata ‘in a big crying you shouldn’t walk any old way, maybe you’ll slip and fall’. [NE tx̣úut̓a; Y x̣áwat̓a.]

qáwɨnp

Catch. iqáwɨnpša k̓píitna ‘he is catching the ball’; k̓píitna iqáwɨnpa ‘he caught a ball’; tamáqawɨnp ‘catch that which is thrown’. [NE tx̣áłx̣ʷn; NP /tqeˀnp/.]

qawšqáwš

Lovage, Canby’s licoriceroot, Ligusticum canbyi. A sweathouse medicine and also a cold medicine. qawšqáwš ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a ana kʷná iwá yáƛ̓pit tiičám ‘lovage grows where the ground is wet’; níix̣ itíwaša qawšqáwš ‘lovage smells good’; qawšqáwš iwá aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘lovage is a cough medicine’. Also called áyun. [NP /qawsqáws/.]

qáwqin

Fall, fall down. Also sometimes tqáwqin. qáwqinaaš ‘I fell down’; aw kú iqáwqina k̓ʷapɨ́n Wawatáway ‘then the aforementioned Antelope fell down’; táqawqin ‘strike down, cause to fall (of a sickness)’; wáatqawqin ‘fall down while running’; qáwqit ‘falling down’. [NE tx̣áwx̣in; NP /tqewqín/ ‘fall ill, drop dead’.]

qáwšx̣

Stop. ana kú qáwšx̣a sɨ́nwit watím ‘when we quit talking yesterday’; aš kú míš ín míta kupam čáw qáwšx̣ta túkni ‘when something happens to me you shouldn’t stop anything’; wáaqawšx̣ ‘stop for a while’. [N tx̣áwšx̣; NP /tlqn/.]

qáx̣upt̓a

Bump. iqáx̣upt̓anaaš łamtɨ́x̣ki ‘he bumped into me with his head’; iqáx̣upt̓ana łamtɨ́x̣ túpan ‘he bumped his head on something’.

qayciyáw̓yaw

Thank you! See also k̓ʷałá. [NP qeˀciyéw̓yew̓.]

qi-

Element that sporadically occurs in Skunk’s speech. čáw, qiyáya, qiláakšaaš qix̣apiłmí ‘no, brother, I am forgetting my knife’; ku iqiláakɨnx̣ana wacúqt ‘and he would forget his hatchet’; qiláakɨnnaš ‘I have forgotten’; qiláaknaaš ‘I forgot’. [WS & NW pí-.]