x̣ʷɨ́łn

Slip off, come loose, be loosened, released, extracted, pulled back. ix̣ʷɨ́łna apɨ́x̣ ‘the skin came off’; ix̣ʷɨ́łna ‘it worked out from the ground’ (Jacobs 1931:175); čáx̣ʷłk ‘untie’; šapáx̣ʷłk ‘pull off’; tamáx̣ʷlk ‘play horseshoes’; wáx̣ʷłk ‘untie, unlock’; x̣ʷɨ́łx̣ʷł ‘meadowlark’; x̣ʷšx̣ʷɨ́š ‘stretchy’. Ablaut and/ or broken: x̣ʷáał ‘slip off, come loose’; x̣ʷíił ~ x̣ʷiˀíił ‘smooth, slick, slippery’; x̣ʷiˀíłn ‘slip on ice’. Roots related variously via sound symbolism: kʷɨ́ƛ̓ ~ qʷɨ́č ~ qʷɨ́ƛ ~ q̓ʷɨ́c ~ q̓ʷɨ́č ~ xʷɨ́l. [NP /qʷc/, /qʷł/, /q̓ʷc/ (as in /q̓ʷcq̓ʷ´c/ ‘naked’), /q̓ʷł/ (ablaut: q̓óoł ‘slippingly’), /hoł/, /xʷł/, /x̣ʷł/ (Aoki 1994:931).]