pƛɨ́k

Spicy, hot, piquant; pepper. pƛɨ́k pawá ‘they are bitter’; pƛɨ́k iwá płɨ́x̣ ‘the medicine is bitter’; pƛɨ́kpam wáta imáyč̓a ‘you [bitterroots] will also be bitter’; pƛɨ́k iwá pyax̣í ‘bitterroot is bitter’; pƛɨ́k áwa puušmí tmaanít ‘juniper berries are bitter’; pƛɨ́k pyax̣í iwačá płɨ́x̣ ‘bitterroot was a bitter medicine’; ttúuš iwá pyax̣í pƛɨ́k ‘some bitterroot is bitter’; páyu pƛɨ́k ‘very spicy’; šapátwani pƛɨ́kki x̣mítuski ‘barbecue sauce’. Sound symbolic variant of płɨ́x̣ ‘medicine’; p̓ísx ‘sour’. [NP /psk̓is/.]