Definition:
Medicine, herb.
Examples:
- tuntún áwača płɨ́x̣ ‘they had all kinds of medicine’;
- ku iwá płɨ́x̣ ɨšk̓apášway ‘and the rose is a medicine’;
- k̓ʷáy iwá płɨ́x̣ naamíyay wáwnakʷšašay ‘that is a medicine for our bodies’;
- kuna iníya płɨ́x̣ tútanikay ‘and he gave us medicine for our hair’;
- áwna áwaqitša tawšáan płɨ́x̣ay ‘now we are going to look for sagebrush for medicine’;
- k̓ʷáy iwá płɨ́x̣ čalúkš waníči ‘that is the medicine named chalúksh‘;
- awnam kú paláyša płɨ́x̣ki ‘then you are intoxicated with medicine’;
- aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘cough medicine’; muláyti płɨ́x̣ ‘herbal tea’;
- płɨ́x̣ winšpamá ‘giant-hyssop or horse-mint (Agastache occidentalis)’;
- šuyapunmí płɨ́x̣ ‘the whiteman’s medicine’;
- tawc̓xtpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘laxitive’;
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šapápłx̣kaša ‘mush on to (such as medicine)’;
płɨ́x̣i ‘treat’;
płx̣pamá ‘pharmacy’.
[NP /sáykiptat̓as/; cf. NP /psqu/ ‘leaf’.]