Sickness, illness, disease. mɨlá iwá payúwit ‘it is a bad sickness’; amaš tún wá payúwit ‘any disease that you have’; míimi čáw kúuš iwačá tún payúwit ‘long ago there was not any sickness like that’; ana k̓ʷapɨ́n tún patáwaničɨnx̣a payúwitna ‘the aforementioned thing which they name the sickness’; itáqawqišaaš payúwitnɨm ‘the sickness is making me fall’. [NP k̓óomayn /k̓ómayn-t/.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation