płɨ́x̣

Definition:

Medicine, herb.


Examples:

  1. tuntún áwača płɨ́x̣ ‘they had all kinds of medicine’;
  2. ku iwá płɨ́x̣ ɨšk̓apášway ‘and the rose is a medicine’;
  3. k̓ʷáy iwá płɨ́x̣ naamíyay wáwnakʷšašay ‘that is a medicine for our bodies’;
  4. kuna iníya płɨ́x̣ tútanikay ‘and he gave us medicine for our hair’;
  5. áwna áwaqitša tawšáan płɨ́x̣ay ‘now we are going to look for sagebrush for medicine’;
  6. k̓ʷáy iwá płɨ́x̣ čalúkš waníči ‘that is the medicine named chalúksh‘;
  7. awnam kú paláyša płɨ́x̣ki ‘then you are intoxicated with medicine’;
  8. aq̓uwitpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘cough medicine’; muláyti płɨ́x̣ ‘herbal tea’;
  9. płɨ́x̣ winšpamá ‘giant-hyssop or horse-mint (Agastache occidentalis)’;
  10. šuyapunmí płɨ́x̣ ‘the whiteman’s medicine’;
  11. tawc̓xtpamá płɨ́x̣ ‘laxitive’;

See more:

šapápłx̣kaša ‘mush on to (such as medicine)’;

płɨ́x̣i ‘treat’;

płx̣pamá ‘pharmacy’.

[NP /sáykiptat̓as/; cf. NP /psqu/ ‘leaf’.]