942 terms start with “w

wiláwɨx̣ič

Blow down. hulíyin páwilawɨx̣itša šwíčtna ‘the wind is blowing the rye grass down’. [Cf. NP /wléwqin/ ‘winnow’.]

wiláx̣aap

Blow underneath. páwilax̣aapa hulíin ‘the wind blew it underneath’.

wilíilaamk

Cover up (of wind). hulíin páwilíilaamkša watíkšna ‘the wind is covering up the tracks’.

wilkyakí

Leggings, as worn in the wáashat service, etc., made out of buckskin or blanket. [NE sulátas; NP /tohon/.]

wíłpakpak

Robin, Turdus migratorius. [WW wíšpakpak; NW twíšqaqa; ɨwísqaqa (Jacobs 1931:102); NP /wíspox̣pox̣/.]

wíłq̓anp

Scratch with claws or nails. iwíłq̓anpaaš kitísnɨm ‘the cat scratched me’. Cf. wísk̓anp ‘pinch’. [K wíiłq̓ɨp (Jacobs 1929:190:5, 15, 18, 19); NP /sq̓p/ ‘scratch, pinch’.]

wiłúunp

Bluff. Also tnán.

Wiłúunp

Definition:

The big bluff at Pilot Rock; Pilot Rock, Oregon.


Examples:

  1. áwna wínaša Wiłuunpyaw ‘let’s go to Pilot Rock’;
  2. páyšnaš páx̣at anwíčt skúuliya kʷná Wiłúunpa ‘maybe I went five years to school there at Pilot Rock’.

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Also called sapáxikas.

wímitaš

Verb. [Coined by Thomas Morning Owl, 11-20-97.]

wímšiyaytš

Earring. wɨx̣inšmí paˀaníx̣a wímšiyaytš ‘they make earrings from abalone’. [N wímšyakš; WS wíłɨnkʷš; NP /ˀeqíwit/; /ˀcwes/.]

wína

Definition:

To go.


Examples:

  1. iwínàna ~ iwinána ‘he went’;
  2. áwnaš wínaša ‘I am going now’;
  3. iwína ‘he has just gone’;
  4. wínak kʷáy ‘go that way!’;
  5. kʷáan wínak ‘go away!’;
  6. wínam ‘come!’;
  7. wínam čáy ‘come this way!’;
  8. aw kú kʷaaní iwínana áswan ‘then the boy went in that direction’;
  9. áwna wínaša Wiłúunpyaw ‘let’s go to Pilot Rock’;
  10. pawínama ‘they came’;
  11. wínax̣anaaš náptipa nɨknípa ‘I used to go at two o’clock’;
  12. wínašapam skúulitaša ‘you are going to school’;
  13. ačataš kú wínata x̣nɨ́mˀuyiyatata mɨtáłk̓ʷipa ‘because we will go do the first digging on Wednesday’;
  14. kutaš iwínanawaša šuyápunɨm ‘and the whiteman is going to us’;
  15. wínanaataš x̣nítana ‘we went root digging’;
  16. kutaš wínata ánč̓a x̣nítata ‘and we will go digging again’;
  17. pawínana inmíkan ‘they went toward my place’;
  18. ana kʷná pawínax̣ana nč̓ínč̓ima ‘where the elders used to go’; pawíwinaša ‘they are each going’;
  19. wínatat̓aša ‘I want to go’;
  20. čáw máan wínataš ‘nowhere to go’;
  21. šapáwina ‘send’;
  22. nákwina ‘take along’;
  23. máywina ‘go in the morning’;
  24. táwwina ‘go at night’;
  25. típawina ‘go stooped over’;
  26. twáwina ‘go in the rain’;
  27. winanáwa ‘go to’;
  28. winanúun ‘swim, bathe’;
  29. wínatx̣awn ‘go right through, go immediately’.

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[NP /wíhnen/.]

winá-

Hurriedly. wináwayn ‘melt’; wináanakʷ ‘leave’; winanínn ‘run away’; winanúun ‘swim, bathe’. See also wilá-.

wináanakʷ

Leave, leave a spouse through death. áwmataš wináanakʷša ‘I am leaving you now’; áwna iwináanakʷša ‘now it’s leaving us (said of the sun when getting delayed)’; anam kú iwináanakʷta imínɨm tamátwaynɨm ‘when your spouse will leave you (i.e., die)’; wináanakʷi ‘left, left behind by death of spouse’. Also wiláalakʷ. [NP /nwíhnan/.]

wináanakʷi

Left, left behind by the death of a spouse. ana pɨ́n iwá wináanakʷi pɨ́nsɨm áwtta ‘she who is left (widowed), only she should taboo’; kúušx̣i ana pɨ́n iwá wináanakʷi tilaakinmíki ku čáw itkʷáynpta ača kú čáw čáw íƛ̓iyawita túna ‘in the same way he who is left by his woman should not go hunting because he will not kill anything’; ana pmáy pawá wináanakʷi ‘they who are left’; ana kú paˀáwtšana wináanakʷiima ‘when the left behind were tabooing’; miyánašma pawačá wináanakʷi ‘children were left’; wináanakʷi wapáwat ‘keepsake clothes (from the deceased)’. [NP niwíhnanin̓ /nwíhnaniˀns/.]

wináanakʷt

Leaving behind. nákpnit wináanakʷt ‘memorial ending a period of mourning where the belongings of the deceased are brought out’. [NP niwíhna /nwíhnan/.]

winanáwa

Go to, approach. iwinanáwašamšnaš ‘he is coming to me’. [N wínanuun (Jacobs 1929:224:6, 7); NP /kiyúu/.]

winaní

On foot. iwiyánawiša winaní ‘he is arriving on foot’. [NP /wihnen̓í/.]

winanínn

Run away, flee, escape. iwinanínx̣ana wínš wɨnpłaamíkni ‘the man would always run away from the police’; winanínšaaš níitknik ‘I’m running away from home’. [NP /wlelíkn/; /wúyn/.]

winánp

Take up a weapon. itx̣áwinanpšata súlcasma ‘the soldiers will quickly take up arms’.

winánpš

Weapon. palaláy pawačá winánpš Umatilla Army Depotpa ‘there were a lot of weapons at the Umatilla Army Depot’. Also sometimes winánpt. [NP /ˀnéhtqeˀnpeˀs/.]