Leader, boss. Often reduces to wiyáwat̓wi ~ wiyáwat̓i. apam wá imáy čná aníyi wiyáwat̓uy ‘you who are made leaders here’; ana pmáy pawá aníyi wiyáwat̓uy ‘they who are made leaders’; wiyáwat̓uy x̣nɨmˀuyitpamá ‘leader in the first digging’. [NP /ˀnoqtiyaˀwat(o)/.]
Language Program · Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation