sawítk

Common or Gardner’s yampah, Indian carrot, Perideridia gairdneri. aw kú tílaakima pax̣nítax̣ana táyyaw sawítk ‘then the women would go to the meadow to dig Indian carrot’; ana kʷná iwá x̣lák pášx̣aš ku kʷná ittáwax̣ɨnx̣a sawítk ‘where there is a lot of balsamroot then the Indian carrot grows there’; sawitkwáakuł ‘carrot’. Also called tawtnúk wáx̣wayčtpa. [NP /cawitk/.]