942 terms start with “w

wáwq̓p

Pound nails, nail down, pound down. iwáwq̓pša ‘he is pounding in nails’; iwáwq̓pa šáx̣aaptna ‘he nailed the boards down’; wawk̓páwas ‘nail’. [NP /wec̓éˀk/.]

wawq̓páwas

Nail, hammer. See wawk̓páwas.

wáwq̓pi

Nailed. [NP /wec̓éˀkiˀns/.]

wáwtiwi

Yell at, snap at, bark at. iwáwtiwišaaš k̓usik̓úsinɨm ‘the dog is barking at me’.

wáwtk̓iwi

Mistreat, trick. pánim tún umíšmaš wáwtk̓iwita ‘give me something or I’ll trick you’.

wawtk̓iwiłá

Trickster. wawtk̓iwiłá iwačá Spilyáy ‘Coyote was a trickter’.

wáwtɨnwi

Be confident, assertive, straightforward. wáwtɨnwitanam ‘you should be confident’; áwawtɨnwik ‘stand up to him’. [NP /wáwtlwi/.]

wáwtuk

Camp overnight, stay overnight, spend the night, be a date. ku kʷná pawiyáwawtukɨnx̣ana ‘and they would camp there overnight on the way’; wáˀuyit Junemí k̓úyc áwawtuka ‘it was Saturday June 9’; náaptit ku náx̣š áwawtukɨnx̣a anx̣ayx̣mí ku kúuk pinátamasklikɨnx̣a tiičám wawáx̣ɨmityaw ánɨmkni ‘night falls the twenty first of the month and then the earth turns itself to spring from winter’; nákwawtuk ‘baby-sit’; wɨšwáwtuk ‘camp overnight’; wáwtukt ‘camping overnight, night’. [NP /wéwtuk/.]

wawtukáwas

Motel. Also wawtuktpamá. [NP /wewtukées/.]

wáwtukt

Camping overnight, night, twenty four hour day. kunam ƛ̓áax̣ʷ išúkʷayišamš imanáy łk̓ʷí wáwtukt ‘and he knows all your days’; ku aw kú páx̣atipa wáwtuktpa íƛ̓iyawiya ‘and then on the fifth day he made his kill’; páx̣at wáwtukt iwánpta wánpt uyiłá ‘the medicine singing beginner will sing five nights’; iwačá páx̣atipa wáwtuktpa ‘it was on the fifth day’; nápt wáwtukt ‘two nights’. [NP /wéwtukt/.]

wawtuktpamá

Motel, “camping place” (Jacobs 1929:204:16). Also wawtukáwas. [NP /wewtukées/.]

wáwtun

Survive, live. pawáwtuna kʷná x̣nítki ‘they lived by root-digging’ (Millstein 1990); ana kʷná áluša k̓ʷapɨ́n ana kʷná pawáwtuun ‘where their (meadow) is burning, where they have survived’.

wáwƛ̓iip

Chip, chip off chips. iwáwƛ̓iipša ílukas wacúqtki ‘he is chipping chips off wood with his axe’. Distributive of wáƛ̓iip.

wáwƛ̓ik

Club to death. Distributive of wáƛ̓ič. [NP /wewpéˀk/.]

wáwšuk

Shake down, drop down, peck off. iwáwšukša pátaatkni ‘he is picking things off the tree’.

wawšukłá

Northern oriole, Icterus galbula. iwáwšukɨnx̣a apɨ́łapł wawšukłá ‘the oriole shakes down leaves’. [NP /léwt̓ux̣t̓ux̣/ (Aoki 1994:351).]

wawúkya

Bull elk, elk, Cervus canadensis. ášuwak wawúkyana ‘skin the elk!’; wawukyanmí k̓ɨštɨ́n ‘elk tooth’. See also tašímka ‘cow elk’. [NW wiyapnít; NP /wewúkiye/.]

wawšúwiya

Examine closely. k̓íš wináta ana kʷná pawá płɨx̣iłáma k̓íš pawawšúwyata ‘I’m going where the doctors are—they will examine me’.

wáwx

Two pronged fish spear. ipɨ́tyaša núsux wáwxki ‘he is spearing the fish with the two pronged fish spear’. [NW tanú; NP /sistoˀs/ (has one prong).]

wáwšx̣

Finish a project.