86 terms start with “q

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 ; NP /c̓n´nn̓is/ (/c̓n´nn/ ‘be heavy’).]

qúˀiš

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

qun

Decapitated. Bound in šáqʷɨnk ‘behead’. [NP /qúl/; /qul´l/ ‘severed (of head).’.]

qúynu

Band-tailed pigeon, Patagioenas fasciata. [CR wit̓iq̓ín; K wítq̓in; NP /quynu/.]

qúyx̣

White. Animate. qúyx̣ iwyánawi ‘a white man has arrived’; ku kúuk ánč̓a páwiyanawiyawana qúyx̣in ku pášapniya máanpam áw tmíyuna ‘and the whiteman came to them again and asked them, “how did you decide?”‘; qúyx̣ k̓úsi ‘white horse’; qúyx̣ miimánu ‘snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus)’; lakáayama qúyx̣quyx̣ ‘white Mice’ (Jacobs 1937:31.17.1, 2, pg. 74). Also qaˀáwqaˀaw.

qɨwíił

Open, clear. qɨwíił iwá ɨščɨ́t ‘the path is clear’; ača kú áwa pɨnmíin qɨwíił aníyi wínat ‘because his going was made open’; áw pawáašax̣ana pɨnmikíin ku qɨwíił iwačá ‘they would now dance for him and the path was open’. [Possibly related sound symbolically to qamíł ‘canyon’; q̓mɨ́ł ‘cliff’; q̓míił ‘crevice’; x̣ɨwúš ‘brook, ravine, canyon’.]