Wild blackberry, Rubus ursinus. Smaller than the domestic blackberry and very sweet. patmaaníx̣ana wisíkna míimi ‘they used to pick blackberries long ago’. [NP /ceqet/.]
wísk̓anp
Pinch. iwísk̓anpaas ‘he is pinching me’; iwísk̓anpaaš wisk̓anpłánɨm ‘the earwig pinched me’. Sound symbolically diminutive version of wíłq̓anp ‘scratch’. [NP /sq̓p/ ‘scratch, pinch’.]
wisk̓anpkáwas
Arrow nock, the notch at the end of an arrow. iwá k̓úpni wisk̓anpkáwas lak̓ʷikskinmí ‘the arrow nock is broken on the arrow’.
wisk̓anpłá
Earwig. hananúy pawá wisk̓anpłáma ‘earwigs are bothersome’; mɨšyú papaˀašłá ‘earwig’ (Hunn 1990:313).
wísx
Sew. áwisxsaas ‘I’m sewing it’; iwíwisxša ƛ̓píip ‘she is sewing each wing dress’; pawíwisxna ƛ̓píip ‘they are sewing wing dresses’ (they’re doing it together such as in a class); k̓pɨ́tki iwísxša ‘she is beading’; áwisxayišaataš ƛ̓píip miyánašmaaman ‘we’re sewing wingdresses for the children’; iwisxát̓aša ‘she wants to sew’; łúq̓um wísxt ‘sewing gloves’; wísxi ‘sewed, sewn’; wisxáwas ‘string, thread, twine, yarn’; wísxi ‘sewn’; wisxtpamá ‘thimble’. [NP /tk̓ípnen/.]
wisxáwas
String, thread, twine, yarn. áwawaatk̓ulikɨnk wisxáwaski ‘wrap it with twine!’; wisxáwas k̓ɨštɨ́n ikiiktpamá ‘dental floss’. [NE wisxúus; NP /tk̓ípnen̓es/.]
wisxawaspamá
Spool. míimi paˀaníx̣ana wisxawaspamá ílukaski ‘long ago they used to make thread spools out of wood’. Also walak̓ikáwas.
wísxi
Sewed, sewn. wísxi áwa ƛ̓píip ‘her wing dress is sewed’. [NE wisxí; NP /tk̓ípneniˀns/.]
wisxłá
Sewer, seamstress, tailor. skáw iwá wisxłá ‘she is a wonderful seamstress’. [NP /tk̓ipnenew̓et(u)/.]
wísxq̓ʷp
Sew a hem, hem. iwísxq̓upša tílatatna ‘she is heming the trousers’; wísxq̓upɨnk tílatat ‘hem up your pants!’. [NP /sepéq̓ʷp/.]
wísxq̓ʷpt
Hem. k̓ʷaywámaš wá wísxq̓upt ‘your hem is short’. [Y wísxs ‘seam’; NP /sepéq̓ʷpt/.]
wisxtamáynačt
Inseam on a moccasin. A piece of buckskin that is put in between the seam of a moccasin to protect it from wear, an insert to protect the thread. Also used on gloves.
wisxtpamá
Thimble. wisxtpamá ɨstí ‘sewing needle’. Also wack̓alá. [WS wásk̓alay; NP /wex̣´mkeˀs/.]
-wit
Abstractive. ɨmúˀmuwit ‘very pretty, petite and pretty’; pačíwit ‘meanness’; pačwáywit ‘Sunday’; qaˀánwit ‘sobriety’; tk̓ʷíikwit ‘straightness’; tɨmnanč̓íwit ‘tolerance, endurance’; twatíwit ‘shamanic power’; waq̓íšwit ‘life, spirit’; x̣túwit ‘strength’. See also -awit. [NP /-wit/.]
witalú
Mourning dove, Zenaida macroura. Also miimím. [NE mítalu; NP /wítel̓uu/.]
witmiyułá
Decisor, decider of things. witmiyułánaš wá ináwa walápaq̓ičt miyúux̣ ‘I am a desider, says the President’. [NP /witmmiyunew̓et(u)/.]
wítwit
Spotted sandpiper, Actitis macularia. wítwit iwá wanapáyn ‘the sandpiper is along the river’. [NW twítwit; NP /wítitit/.]
wíwakalil
Hanging on and drooping down (such as from a tree or roof, like tinsel on a tree). iwá wíwakalil níitaš ‘the abandoned house is caving in’; taawáy wíwalkalil ‘icicles’.
wíwanič
Name each, name several, read. k̓ʷáyš kʷɨ́ł áwiwaničɨn ‘that much have I named each’; wíwaniči ‘each named one’. [N wíwanik; NP /wíweˀnik/.]
wíwaničt
Names. šíman áwa wíwaničt ‘what are their names?’. [N wíwanikt; NP /wíweˀnikt/.]