Trade, especially the wedding trade (from the men’s side to the woman’s side). papšx̣úyiša ‘they are having the wedding trade’; ku aw kú pápapšx̣uyiya ‘and then they had the wedding trade with one another’; ipšx̣úyišayka inmí áyč ‘my sister-in-law went on to Indian trade’; ana kú ipšx̣úyiya inmípa pamtmípa ‘when they traded on my nephew’; ana kú papšx̣úyita čná ‘when they will have the wedding trade here’; ku kúuk paˀaníx̣ana patún ku papšx̣úyix̣ana wínškni ‘and they they would make things and they would have the wedding trade on the man’s side’. [NP /msqoyi/.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation