Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus); American pika (Ochotona princeps). [NE púux̣c; WS č̓íit; NW lukáš; Y č̓íin; PS pálx̣c; NP /p´lx̣c/.]
129 terms start with “x̣”
x̣úupn
Change (of weather). ix̣úupna ‘the weather changed’; ix̣úupša ‘the weather is changing’; táx̣uup ‘pull a certain plant to cause a weather change’; túux̣uupn ‘make noise and make the weather change’; x̣uupłá ‘snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus‘.
x̣úupnit
Bluff. áw ináša x̣úupnit ‘now the bluff has sounded (said when it is going to warm up and the snow is about to go off and the water about to come down the creek)’.
x̣uuwí
Be a gully or washout (land form). ix̣uuwíša tiičám ‘the land is washing out becoming a gully’; čáx̣uuwi ‘stretch (rope), lace (on a frame)’; wíx̣uuwi ‘lace, lace to a frame’. [Possibly áwi ‘look for’ plus a detransitivizing x̣á-.]
x̣úx̣š
Shale. [NP /ˀuuyikem/.]
x̣úx̣ux̣
Raven, Corvus corax. [NP /qoqoq/.]
x̣ɨwúš
Brook, ravine, canyon. Also x̣ɨwɨ́š. x̣ɨwúšpa pawá Wawatáwyama ‘the antelope are in a canyon’. [NP /s´qan/ ~ /sqan/; x̣ɨwúš likely related sound symbolically to qɨwíił ‘open, clear’; q̓mɨ́ł ‘cliff’; q̓míił ‘crevice’; ‘brook, ravine, canyon’.]
x̣ɨ́x̣uš
Green. x̣ɨ́x̣uš iwá c̓íc̓k ‘the grass is green’. [NP /x̣x̣us/.]
x̣yáw
Dry. išnáwiya ílukasna x̣yáwna ‘he looked for dry wood’; k̓ʷáy áwača pšatat̓áwas ana kʷná panaknúwix̣ana ƛ̓áax̣ʷ paamíin tkʷátat x̣yáw ‘that was their bag where they used to keep all their dry food’; Spilyáy išnáwiya ílukasna x̣yáwna ‘Coyote looked for dry wood’; anam kʷɨ́nɨm išapáˀat̓ɨlpta mɨlá táwax̣ ku čúut kunam čáw kʷaaná ákuta čná ačana kú wá čáw atáymat čúut iwá x̣yáw čná ‘that which will make you crazy, marijuana and liquor, and you will not do that here because we are not to sell liquor—it is dry here’; x̣yáw ikúša ‘it is drying up’; x̣yáw tiičám ‘dry land’; tkʷátat x̣yáw ‘dry food’; láx̣yawi ‘dry’ (vi.); ílax̣yawi ‘dry’ (vt.). Ablaut: x̣áayaw ‘dry’. [Y xyáaw; NP /qy̓áw̓is/