Whirlwind. sk̓ulúlapt iwačá ‘it was a whirlwind’; itk̓ulíšayka sk̓ulúlaptpa ‘he walked into the whirlwind’ (means that he got into someone’s thoughts); nč̓í sk̓ulúlapt ‘big whirlwind’; sk̓ululaptwáakʷł čúušpa ‘whirlpool’. [NP /splis/.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation