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Land feature formative in núwax̣am ‘burnt over ground’; šám ‘scree’; tamalám ‘rocky bar in river’; tiičám ‘land’; watám ‘lake’; Wayám ‘Celilo’; Wɨ́šx̣am ‘Wishram’. [Cf. NP /-em/ in /ˀmssem/ ‘rocky hillside’; /ˀuuyikem/ ‘shale rock’; /ˀwetem/ ‘lake’; /cam̓qʷam/ ‘point, corner, sharp angle’; /caayokam/ ‘pebbled beach’; /háwtikam/ ‘steep ground, cliff’; /héwtip̓em/ ‘hillside’; /kím̓olikam/ ‘guardian spirit mountain’; /meqsem/ ‘mountain’; /qemúynem/ ‘Wallowa Creek’; /simínekem/ ‘fork of river’; /tamalam/ ‘rocky bar’; /tkem/ ‘waterfall’; /toyam/ ‘hill top’; /tq̓isam/ ‘shore, bank’; /tx̣peˀem/ ‘prairie’; /tx̣sem/ ‘ridge’.]