Terms starting with “t̓” – Umatilla Language Online Dictionary

45 terms start with “t̓”

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Umatilla:

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c
c̓
č
č̓
h
i
ɨ
k
k̓
kʷ
k̓ʷ
l
ł
m
n
p
p̓
q
q̓
qʷ
q̓ʷ
s
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English:

t̓á

Be impacted, be struck. Bound. pɨ́ƛ̓a ‘wet or dampen the hair’; tunápt̓a ‘kick’; túpt̓a ‘kick repeatedly’; wát̓a ‘switch, whip’; tx̣ʷnɨ́mpt̓a ‘spur’. [NP /t̓e/.]

-t̓a

Definition:

Want, wish to do something.

Function:

Desiderative. Attach to verbs. Modern speakers of Umatilla usually use -t̓at̓a

Examples:

As -t̓a:
1. čúut̓a ‘be thirsty’;
2. tkʷátat̓a ‘want to eat’;
3. wɨšát̓a ‘want to lie down’;
4. -pát̓a ‘desire, crave’. As -at̓a: ík̓aywakat̓a ‘want to outdo’;
5. wáyčat̓a ‘go look for’;
6. wɨ́npat̓a ‘want to cross’;
7. wɨšáyčat̓a ‘want to stay’. With stem final n deleted: łúukat̓a ‘need to urinate’;
8. q̓ínwat̓a ‘want to see’;
9. šúkʷayat̓a ‘want to learn’;
10. tíitat̓a ‘want to flatulate’;
11. wɨx̣íyat̓a ‘want to lie down’.
12. ku kʷyáam pašúkʷayat̓aša sɨ́nwit naamí ‘and truly they went to learn our language’;
13. ku kʷaaná panáktux̣ʷat̓ašamš ‘and they want to bring that back’;
14. pápaˀik̓aywakat̓ana ‘they wanted to outdo each other’;
15. ku kʷná pawámšita ana šíman kʷná pawšáyčat̓ata ‘and whoever will want to stay there will buy on credit’;
As -tat̓a:
1. anítat̓a ‘want to make’;
2. wínatat̓a ‘want to go’;
3. x̣nítat̓a ‘want to dig’.
4. ataš tún anítat̓aša ‘anything that we want to make’;
5. ana kʷná patáˀanitat̓aša níit ‘where they are wanting to build the house’;
6. ana túntya áw paˀanítat̓ax̣ana ‘whatever now they would want to make’;
7. ana kʷɨ́nki paˀanítat̓aša tún ‘with that which they are wanting to make something’.
8. paˀiƛ̓iyawitát̓ana kʷɨ́nik̓a ‘they wanted to kill them next on that side’;

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[NP /-ˀpécwi/; cf. NP prospective /-tet̓e/ ‘be about to’.]

t̓aˀáaš

Extinguished. t̓aˀáaš ikú ‘it (the fire) had gone completely out’. [NP /tahastáhas/.]

t̓áa

Enough. t̓áa níix̣ tiičám ‘enough good land’. [WS c̓áx̣i; NP /hipst̓úy̓/; cf. NE t̓áali ‘before’.]

t̓áakʷk

Break, broken. t̓áakʷknaš kʷíya tkʷsáy ‘I (dropped and) broke the cup’; t̓áakʷk ikú tkʷsáy ‘the cup broke’; t̓áakʷk ikʷíya tkʷsáyna ‘he broke the cup’.

t̓áaš

Dying out (of fire). t̓áaš iwá ‘it (fire) is dying out’; t̓aˀáaš ‘extinguished’. [NP /tohóos/.]

Flat. t̓ałáa iwá tkʷatatpamá ‘the table is flat’; t̓ałáa tiičám ‘flat land’; x̣yáw t̓ałáa tiičám ‘dry flat land’; t̓ałáa yúkaas ‘bull moose’; t̓ałáa ílukas ‘flat stick’; t̓ałáa pšwá ‘flat rock (they used these for making ɨpá)’; šapáwaat̓ałak ‘flatten’; tíwaat̓ałak ‘flatten by sitting on’; lapt̓ałá ‘salmon pemmican’; sapt̓ałá ‘salmon patties’. [NE & K t̓áy; NP /łt̓eˀł´t̓eˀ/, /t̓eyíit̓eyii/.]