Heavy; sluggish, slow, lazy. qú iwá ‘he’s slow, heavy’; qúnam wá ‘you’re slow’; qú áwšayča wáaš ‘their floor (the floor of whatever is going on) got heavy (there are bad feelings)’; čáquuk ‘hold back, halt’; tamáquk ‘weigh down, hinder’; wáquuk ‘stake down’; wáwquuk ‘peg down’ (distributive). Breaking: qaˀáaw ‘lightweight, fast, quick’. [Y ɨqú or qú; NP /c̓n´nn̓is/ (/c̓n´nn/ ‘be heavy’).]

Wealthy, rich. Also pronounced qʷíˀiš. qúˀiš iwá ‘he is wealthy’. [NP qúuy̓s /quˀis/; cf. perhaps qú ‘heavy’.]