281 terms start with “č

Palatalized variant of stem marker -k (which see). íłamayč ‘hide’; nákłamayč ‘misguide, lead astray’; páƛ̓ič ‘kill with the hand’; šapálk̓ʷič ‘cover up, bury’; šapáq̓ič ‘attach, tape, hang up’; šáq̓tč ‘plough’; tákʷtč ‘pull weeds, pick flowers’; tamáq̓ič ‘hang up’; támq̓ič ‘hang things over a pole’; tunáqʷtč ‘step on sharp object’; tunáƛ̓ič ‘step on and kill’; tútaƛ̓ič ‘kill by butting with the head’; waníč ‘name’; wáaq̓ič ‘get caught’; wáƛ̓ič ‘club to death’; wax̣íč ‘lay out’; wiláwɨx̣ič ‘blow down’; wiyáłamayč ‘be lost on the way’; yálk̓ʷič ‘cover with water, flood’; tɨx̣nɨmk̓icáwas ‘stirrup’. A stem final č mutates to t before š: iwáyča ‘he crossed’; iwáytša ‘he is crossing’. [N -k; NP /-k/.]

čá-

With the teeth, in eating; pulling; transitive. čáˀuyˀun ‘grab and shake’; čáč̓q ‘split’; čáku ‘pull’; čáksksi ‘make small’; čák̓aywak ‘shorten’; čák̓ptk ‘ball up’; čák̓uk ‘bundle’; čák̓ʷlk ‘chew’; čámx̣ʷlayk ‘lift out of the ground’; čánp ‘bite’; čánpšk ‘take away from’; čápaa ‘separate, sort’; čápaynač ‘put inside the mouth’; čápt̓ux̣ ‘stretch’; čáp̓uyk ‘harrow’; čátamanayt ‘take out’; čátax̣ši ‘stretch’; čátk̓ʷk ‘straighten out’; čáƛ̓ɨmux̣ ‘put on bandana’; čúun ‘drink’; čáwaaluuk ‘raise up in the air’; čáwaaničaša ‘pull up on’; čáwaanknik ‘put around the outside’; čáwaax̣aap ‘line a tepee’; čáwayna ‘have a tug of war’; čáwiwa ‘stretch’; čáwyaninn ‘wander from place to place’; čáx̣ɨlp ‘open’; čáx̣ɨmk ‘crumble’; čáx̣ʷaami ‘pick up’; čáx̣ʷłk ‘loosen, extract’; čáyawna ‘pull over’; wiyáčawaatk̓uk ‘rein in (horse)’. See also ká-. [NP /ké-/.]

čaˀákš

Hole. iwátquka čaˀákšna ‘he dug a hole’. See also tqúni, k̓úlk. [NP /p̓´łn/.]

čaˀáš

Flirtatious, coy. čaˀáš iwá ‘she is a flirt’.

čaˀáw

Uncovered, open so the air can get in. čaˀáw k̓ʷáy iwá ‘that is open’.

čáˀay

Bad, ugly. čáˀay iwá ‘it is bad’.

čáˀinɨmn

Make a death rattle, cry as the special sound of an animal when freezing from the cold. ičáˀinɨmna k̓úsi ‘the horse nickered the death rattle’.

čáˀyuˀyun

Grab and shake. ičáˀyuˀyuša k̓ʷalálk̓ʷalalna ‘he is taking and shaking the bell’.

čáal

This long, this tall, this far. Compare kʷáal. [NE čaˀál; NP kiwáyl.]

čáaman

These. Accusative case. kunam ƛ̓áax̣ʷ áwilaalakʷayita tún čáaman tanánmaaman ‘and you will leave everything for these people’. [NP /k´nmene/.]

čáan

Toward this. Lengthened vowel ablaut. For other oblique bases see čn-, čiin-. For absolute see čí ‘this’. ana k̓ʷapɨ́n iwá čáan atínačan tiičám ‘the aforementioned which is land toward Athena’; ača kú iwačá wíyat náktux̣t čáan ‘because it was far to bring back here’; čaaná ‘this’ (accusative); čaaní ‘toward this’ (emphatic versative); čáaman ‘these’ (accusative); čaamí ‘of these’ (genitive). [NP /kíkek/; NP oblique /k´n/.]

čaaná

This. Accusative case. anam šín átq̓ix̣ša čaaná k̓úsina kunam wášata ‘you whoever wants this horse ought to ride it’; súlcasma panaknúwišana čaaná tiičámna ‘the soldiers were taking care of this country’; ana kú pátamanwiya čaaná tiičámna ‘when he instituted this land’. See čí. [NP /k´nye/.]

čaaní

Toward this, in this very direction. ku kúuk súlcasin pášapawinama čaaní ‘and then the army sent them here’; ača kú iwačá wíyat náktux̣t čaaní ‘because it was far to take them back here’; iwámš čaaní súlčas ‘the army is coming this way’.

čáašwi

Flirt. ičáašwiša kʷɨnmíyaw winšmíyaw ‘she is flirting with that man’; kʷná ičáašwitana ‘he went there to flirt’; ičáašwiyawatana tílaakina ‘he went to flirt with the woman’. [NE čaˀášwi; NP /kt̓úyn/; /ˀey̓snúu/; cf. NP /k̓ésn/ ‘envy, admire’ (likely from earlier /keˀésn/).]

čaašwiłá

Flirt, flirtatious person.

čáatt

Brush, thicket.

čačáat

With legs spread out. incacáan ‘mine with legs spread out’. Also ččáat.

čáč̓ɨmnayk

Bundle up. ičáč̓ɨmnaykša ‘he’s making a bundle’; ičáč̓ɨmnay-kayiša paanáy ‘he’s helping her tie the bundle’.

čáč̓ɨmnayki

Bundled up for giving away, a big bundle.

čáč̓q

Tear or split apart with the hand. ku iwíčač̓qa ‘and he pulled it apart in thin slices’; kunam áwičač̓qta kʷaaná ‘and you will pull that apart in thin slices’. [Y čáč̓x̣; NP /nkác̓k/.]