púuy

Snow. Often pronounced púwi. páwilaˀik̓ukša púuyna ‘it’s drifting the snow into a pile’; páˀiƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷix̣a pɨnmikíin púuyki ‘it covers it with its snow’; ana čí iwá púwi ‘this which is the snow’; kʷná kúušx̣i púwi iwá ‘it is snow there in the same way’; itwák̓aatkša púuyna ‘he’s shoveling the snow away’; ɨščɨ́t iwačá ƛ̓áax̣ʷ púwi ‘the road was all snow’; iwačá nč̓í púuy ‘there was a big snow’; tiičámna páˀiƛ̓ɨmx̣ʷix̣a pɨnmikíin púwiki ‘it [winter] covers the ground with its snow’; iwačá nč̓í púuy ‘there was a big snow’; kkɨ́s púuy ‘fine snow’. [NE puˀúy; NP /méqeˀ/ (Aoki 1994:436: may be loan from Salish); cf. NP /pohoy/ ‘fine snow, hard snow’.]