Alive, awake. áx̣ʷaynaš wá wáq̓iš ‘I am still alive’; kʷíyayišanam wáq̓iš ‘you owe me’; aníya wáq̓iš ‘he got into debt’; wáq̓iškiš wɨ́npa ‘I charged, went into debt’; ana šín tanán aníta wáq̓iš ku áwa pɨnmíin wášatitay ‘any person who will get into debt, he has to pay his own’; wáq̓iškiš wɨ́npa k̓úsi ‘I got my horse on credit’. [NP /waq̓is/; from /wáqn/ ‘wake up’ plus attributive /-ˀis/; cf. WS wáaq ‘awaken’ (participle).]
waq̓ilmáx̣
Veiny or winged dock, Rumex venosus. Hunn (1990:338, 347).
waq̓íšwi
Revive, come to life. ku iwaq̓íšwiya Spilyáy ‘and Coyote revived’. [NP /waq̓iswi/; wáq̓iš ‘alive, awake’ plus verbalizer -wi.]
waq̓íšwit
Life, spirit. kunam kúušx̣i ím pánaknaknuwita náaman waq̓íšwit ‘and in the same way you will take care of our lives’; ana kʷná pmáy pamániyayišana paamíin waq̓íšwit ‘where they were giving their lives’; níix̣ naamí waq̓íšwit wiyáx̣ayx̣t iwá ‘our life is good’; k̓ʷałanáwašamaš inmíyaw háaštyaw kumaš k̓ʷałanáwaša inmíyaw waq̓íšwityaw ‘thank you for my breath and thank you for my life’. Associated with sɨnwit ‘words’ and the color blue. [NE also haˀášwit; NP /waq̓íswit/.]
wáq̓ɨp
Pound together. waq̓páwas ‘safety pin’; sapawaq̓ɨpáwas ‘button’. [NP /weq̓´pp/ ‘fasten (e.g., a loaded wagon’ (Aoki 1994:609).]
waq̓páwas
Safety pin, anything for pinning things together.
wáqʷatusklin
Look around with the head down. iwáqʷatuskliin ‘he has his put his head down and is looking around’; iwáqʷatusklisklisa ‘he has his head down looking all around’.
wáqʷnayč
Bow the head. iwáqʷnaytša łamtɨ́x̣ ‘he is bowing his head’. [N wáqʷnayk; NP /wéwteylek/; /wq̓ʷmn/ ‘lie face down, stoop’.]
waqʷtqʷɨ́t
Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana).
wáq̓ʷłtp
Pound on the ground.
Wasála
Hood River, Oregon.
wasápan
Townsend’s ground squirrel, Spermophilus townsendii. [Cf. wašápani “prairie dog” (Jacobs 1929:214:5).]
wásas
Canoe, boat, raft. iwax̣úuša wáwas ‘he is paddling his canoe’; ku kúuk iwiyánawiya wásaski wanapáyn ‘and then he arrived by boat along the river’; iyáytaša wásaski ‘he is floating along by raft’. [Y wásiis; NP /ly̓es/; S from earlier *wéseˀes wéše ‘ride’ + purpose nominalizer *-ˀeš.]
wasat̓áwas
Definition:
Saddle.
Example:
wasat̓áwasi ‘saddle up’.
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[NE wasat̓úus; NP /sapoˀsaapoˀs/.]
wasat̓áwasi
Definition:
Saddle.
Example:
itamáštkɨnx̣ana yikɨ́tna k̓úsina ku pawasat̓áwasix̣ana ‘he would rope a wild horse and they would saddle it up’.
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[NP /sapoˀsaapoˀsi/.]
waskú
Bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegnaria spicata), any forage grass, wheat. ápak̓ukɨnk waskúna wɨxulxulípa ‘jig the wheat down in the sack!’; waskú šax̣ƛ̓ktpamá ‘lawnmower’. See also alám. [NP /pqs/.]
waskuwáakuł
Wheat.
wásɨm-
While sitting. wasɨmc̓aakí ‘bareback (on horse)’; wásɨmtq̓ʷx̣ ‘be saddle sore (of a horse)’; wásɨmtacay ‘buffalo robe’. Also wášɨm-.
wasɨmc̓aakí
Bareback (on a horse). iwášaša wasɨmc̓aakí ‘he is riding bareback’. [NP /sapoˀsaapoˀsnót/.]
wásɨmtacay
Buffalo robe. míimi iwačá palaláy wásɨmtacay čná ‘long ago there were a lot of buffalo robes here’; wasɨmtacaynmí útpas ‘buffalo robe’. [NP qoq̓áalx̣nim wix̣suˀútekey.]