Ahead, in front, leading. Also pronounced wát̓wi or wát̓i. wát̓uy iwá ‘he is ahead, he is a leader’; wát̓uyš wiyáwat̓uyita ín ‘I will take the lead’; ana mɨná pawáta káˀuyit wát̓i ‘wherever they will have the feast first’; wát̓uynam wášata kumaš wáta imíin ‘you will ride ahead and he’ll be yours’; ku pačáx̣ɨlpɨnx̣a wánpt náx̣š sc̓át wát̓i ‘and they open the medicine singing one night ahead’; náx̣š wát̓i iwanáčika ‘he came in first’; ana pmáy pawínama wát̓i ‘they who came first’; wát̓uy sc̓át Kísmisyaw ‘the night before Christmas’; wát̓uyčni ‘in front, straight ahead’; wát̓uyčan ‘toward the front’; wíyat wát̓uy ‘far ahead’; wát̓uy miyúux̣ ‘head chief’. [NP /ˀanóqt/.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation