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q̓íya

Fish hook, hook. pipšmí q̓íya ‘bone fishhook’; wawaaq̓íyak ‘snag fish’. [NE wac̓ilaktpamá; NP /waw̓a/; k̓iˀíla /k̓iˀla/ ‘gaff hook’.]

q̓iyák

Fish with gaff hook. paq̓iyákša núsuxna ‘they are gaffing salmon’. [NP /láwyalan/.]

q̓íyat

Fish slime.

q̓lún

Be bald. iq̓lúša ‘he is getting bald’; q̓lúni ‘bald’. [NP /tq̓ʷqn/; cf. also NP q̓aláwn /q̓l´wn/ ‘bead’.]

q̓lúni

Bald. watx̣ɨ́n iwá k̓lúni ‘is he bald?’. [NE q̓luní; NP saq̓antoq̓ox̣níin /saq̓antq̓ʷqniins/.]

q̓ɨłq̓ɨ́ł

Crackers. Also q̓ałq̓áł. [NP q̓ełq̓éł /q̓łq̓´ł/; k̓ałk̓áł /k̓łk̓´ł/.]

q̓míił

Crevice, place where one passes through with big rocks on each side, rocky pathway. [Cf. q̓mɨ́ł ‘cliff’; qamíł ‘canyon’; qɨwíił ‘open, clear’; x̣ɨwúš ‘brook, ravine, canyon’.]

q̓ɨ́mk

Definition:

Scrape, scrape hide.


Examples:

  1. paq̓ɨ́mkɨnx̣ana apɨ́x̣ ‘they would scrape the hide’;
  2. paq̓ɨ́mkšana taxʷɨ́sna q̓ɨmkáwaski ‘they were scraping the dogbane with a shoulder bone’;
  3. q̓ɨ́mki iwá apɨ́x̣ ‘the hide is scraped’;
  4. q̓ɨ́mkt apɨ́x̣na ‘scraping hides’;

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q̓ɨ́mkas ‘shoulder’.

[NP /típsaˀn/ ‘scrape a dry hide’.]

q̓ɨ́mkas

Origin:

q̓ɨ́mk + -as


Definition:

Shoulder, upper arm; draw knife (for scraping hides, made out of rib); tepee shoulder poles (there are two – they’re also called súwapx̣ʷaamit).


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[NP /huhuy/.]

q̓ɨmkáwas

Scraper; scraping pole. Name for both the scraper and the pole upon which the hide is stretched. paˀaníx̣ana q̓ɨmkáwas wawukyanmíkni x̣pɨ́tkni ‘they used to make their scraper out of elk rib’. [NP /típsaˀs/ ‘scraper’.]

q̓mɨ́ł

Cliff, canyon with bluffs on both sides. q̓mɨ́łq̓mɨł ‘cliffs’. Ablaut: q̓áamł ‘crack’; q̓míił ‘crevice’. [NP /tlel/.]

Q̓mɨ́ł

Rock Creek, an Indian village on the Washington side of the Columbia River. Next place upriver from T̓at̓ałíya. ana k̓ʷapɨ́n iwá waníči Q̓mɨ́ł ‘that which is named Rock Creek’; kʷná pawačá x̣lákma tanánma Q̓mɨ́łpa ‘there were many Indians at Rock Creek’; Q̓mɨłłáma ‘people from Rock Creek’. [NP /q̓m̓ł/.]

q̓píit

Round, spherical. Larger than k̓píit.

q̓ɨ́pn

Stick, hang on, be attached. iq̓ɨ́pna k̓úsipa ‘he stayed on the (bucking) horse’; áx̣ʷay iq̓ɨ́pša ‘he’s still staying on’; čáq̓p ‘tie together’; čáwaaq̓p ‘close’; íq̓p ‘tie down’; íq̓pq̓pn ‘tie down a load’; páq̓p ‘pin on, fasten on, put about the waist’; šapáq̓p ‘fasten together’; táq̓p ‘chinch’; wáwq̓p ‘hammer, pound nail’; sapawaak̓páwas ‘button’; suk̓páwas ‘safety pin, tipi pin’; taq̓páwas ‘saddle cinch’; wáwq̓p ‘pound nails’; wɨsak̓páwas ‘bolt’. Ablaut: q̓áap ‘tight, taut’. See also k̓ɨ́pn. [NP /q̓p´p/ ‘fastened’ (adj.); /q̓p´p/ ‘tightly, closely’ (adj.).]

q̓púłq̓puł

Small black species of bug. It is harmful if swallowed.

q̓ɨsq̓ɨ́sn

Bite and chew. K aw kú áq̓ɨsq̓ɨsnx̣a pamtáan áq̓ɨsq̓ɨsnx̣a tuwit̓áaya ‘then Grizzly bit and chewed the toads’ (Jacobs 1937:12.15.3, pg. 23); ku átkʷatana áq̓ɨsq̓ɨsna ‘and she ate crunching them’ (Jacobs 1937:31.8.4, pg. 72). [Cf. q̓šɨ́šn ‘clench, take hold’; Y q̓ɨsq̓ɨ́s ‘crunchy’; cf. NP /q̓ł/ ‘break, crack’ (as in /q̓łq̓´ł/ ‘crackers’; /tkʷépq̓łk/ ‘crack/crunch with the hand’).]

q̓šáaš

Curly, kinky; hard, stiff (as buckskin or moccasins from drying after getting wet). q̓šáaš iwá apɨ́x̣ ‘the hide is stiff’. [Y q̓šáaš ‘curly or wavy haired’.]

q̓ɨšpalí

Buzzard, turkey vulture, Cathartes aura. [NP q̓ispaˀláya /q̓spaˀl´ya/.]

q̓ɨšq̓ɨ́š

Wavy. áwa tútanik q̓ɨšq̓ɨ́š ‘she has wavy hair’. [Y q̓ɨsq̓ɨ́s ‘crunchy’.]

q̓ɨšq̓ɨ́šni

Wavy. q̓ɨšq̓ɨ́šni áwa tútanik ‘she has wavy hair’.