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Adjectives and Adverbs
[edit | edit source]Adverbs
[edit | edit source]- wehkun = twice/two times
Colors
[edit | edit source]- yuváttaat = black
- malómlush = blue
- toxótxush = brown
- qwayáqwyish = dark red or gold
- piwípwish = gray
- xwayáxwyish = gray or faded
- konóknish = green (same as the word for bruised)
- pixépxish = light blue or steel blue
- 'a$ó'$ush yuváttaat = orange
- 'av'aat = red
- 'avá'vash = pink
- ngaxlul = purple (same word for graphite)
- xwayyaat = white
- 'a$ó'$ush = yellow
General Adjectives
[edit | edit source]- wehmal = a few, a little bit
- konóknish = bruised
- yuváttaat = dark colored (added to modify other color words)
- toomawutal = electric/electronic
- $uwó$wush = frightening, scary, or dangerous
- momngawish = marine, from the sea
- 'engmawish = salty
Culture
[edit | edit source]Food
[edit | edit source]- $aawokish = acorn bread
- wiiwish = acorn porridge
- ko$$aat = candy or cookie
- kutápish = corn
- 'engmawish = cracker (saltine)
- naachaxanish = food or meal
- waa'ish = meat
- ko$aat = sugar
- paala = water
- $aaxish = wheat
Modern Objects and Concepts
[edit | edit source]- 'a$lash = bathtub, shower, or bathroom with one of these two fixtures
- toomawumal = battery
- waakilash = broom or brush
- sinnaval chooraat = coin
- sisínnaval qwayáqwyish = copper or gold
- sisínnaval = metal, silver, or money
- sinnaval = money or cash
- ko'chilash = oven
- naawilash = pen, marker, or keyboard
- piwípwilash = pencil
- heyyilash = shovel
- muváaylash = sink, washbasin, or bathroom with sink (but not a toilet or bathtub)
- 'aa'alvish = story or book
Traditional Objects and Concepts
[edit | edit source]- tukmal = basket
- taanat = blanket, buckskin, or rug
- yumpish = hat
- piwíish = headband (same word for Milky Way)
- toopal = mortar
- tungla = name or title
- toopawut = pestle
- teelat = spoken word or language
- $uyvish = trash
Environment
[edit | edit source]Constructed world
[edit | edit source]- kiicha = house
- kut = fire
- 'axíllax = rain (noun)
Natural world
[edit | edit source]- tuvíicha = cloud
- xwaayamal = dawn
- ngiinish = earthquake
- ngaxlul = graphite (same word for purple)
- $aamut = grass, weeds, or hay
- 'exla = land, ground, or soil
- piwíish = Milky Way (same word for headband)
- qawíicha = mountain
- tukva = night or evening
- moomat = ocean, sea, large body of water, or beach
- pisát = outdoors or outside world
- 'a$óonax = rainbow
- 'engla = salt
- tuupash = sky
- temét = Sun, day, time, or weather
- naanat = sunshine or warmth of the Sun
- toota = stone
- toomawut = thunder/thundercloud
- 'alóomax = wave (on the ocean)
- paala = water
- hungla = wind or air
Flora and Fauna
[edit | edit source]Animals
[edit | edit source]- lamáqata = ant
- 'aanat = ant
- 'ánmal = ant (small and black variety that often enters houses)
- tonla = antelope
- huunal = badger
- taválalakmal = bat
- tavállalakmay = bat
- hunwut = bear
- 'ehéngmay = bird
- kuyxingish = black widow spider
- tuukut = bobcat/lynx
- tuukut kingawish = cat
- gaato = cat (synonym borrowed from Spanish)
- qaxaavaywut = chicken
- chilíkmay = cricket
- $uukat = deer
- 'awáal = dog
- paa$ukat = elk/horse
- 'anámat = fish
- ku'aal = fly
- waxáwkila = frog
- qewéewish = fox
- qeengish = ground squirrel
- muu$ikat = goat (same as the word for bearded person)
- moota = gopher
- $ithí' = gopher snake
- kaváayu = horse
- tishmal = hummingbird
- tishla = hummingbird
- keekila = Jerusalem cricket (potato bug)
- qiqéngla = king snake
- 'ixí'wumal = lamb
- qa$ílla = lizard
- tu'kwut = mountain lion/cougar
- tapáshmal = mouse
- 'ashla = pet, domesticated animal, or livestock
- 'inú'nish = pig
- piiqwala = snake
- qaxáal = quail
- pa'yamal = racoon
- $oowut = rattlesnake
- kwa'la = red-tailed hawk
- puypuy = roadrunner
- $uyla = scorpion
- paa'ila momngawish = sea turtle
- tukval = sea otter
- 'ixí'wut = sheep
- paalukut = skunk
- muvíllaqa = snail
- $isqila = stink bug
- paalaxwish = toxic mushroom
- $ukáawut = tree squirrel or flying squirrel
- waxolóoti = turkey
- paa'ila = turtle
- yungáavish = vulture
- 'aláawaka = vulture
- tuukut = wildcat
- la'la = wild goose
Plants and Fungi
[edit | edit source]- wuláqla = California buckwheat
- 'atóo$anat = California poppy
- $aqáapish = oyster mushroom
- $akíshla = stinging nettle
- choochavish = thistle
- chaamish = wild cherry
- 'enwish = wild cucumber
- 'urúush = wild oats (or wild rice; this meaning came later with the introduction of the plant into Southern California)
- panáa'al = yucca whipplei
Numerals
[edit | edit source]- supúl = one (but can also be used as an optional indefinite article with the meaning of a/an)
- weh = two
- paahey = three
- wasá' = four
- maháar = five
People and Body Parts
[edit | edit source]Body Parts
[edit | edit source]- muu$il = beard
- $ulát = fingernail or claw
- piwíila = gray hair
- yuula = hair or fur
- muuvil = nose or nasal passages
- yuutush = scalp or wig
- $uypish = sting or bugbite
- $uyvish = stinger (same word as trash)
Types of People
[edit | edit source]- muu$ikat = bearded person (same as the word for goat)
- hengeemal = boy
- 'ashkat = cowboy or rancher
- nawítmal = girl
- ya'ásh = man
- 'atáax = person
- momngawish = sailor (same word as marine)
- heelikat = singer
- $ungáal = woman
Suffixes
[edit | edit source]- -mal = little/dear (diminutive)
- -kat = one who has or does
- -ma = should have, would have, or every day
- -kun = times/instances
- -lash = tool or instrument used to perform the function
Verbs
[edit | edit source]Common Verbs
[edit | edit source]- ko'chi = to cook or barbecue (with a direct object, transitive)
- ko'cha = to be cooked or barbecued (without a direct object, intransitive)
- samsa = to buy or sell (the sentence needs to designate "from" and "to" because this word is used for two verbal actions)
- heeyi = to dig (with a direct object, transitive)
- heeya = to dig (without a direct object, intransitive)
- paa'i = to drink
- kwa' = to eat
- naachaxan = to eat dinner (or less commonly several other meals)
- naachaxanlo = to eat lunch
- noonomi = to follow
- paaw = to get water
- toow = to see or watch
- kup = to sleep or take a nap
Uncommon Verbs
[edit | edit source]- piwwi = to make or paint gray (with a direct object, transitive)
- piwwa = to be or turn gray, to be nervous before a speech, or to dust with flour (without a direct object, intransitive)
- 'av'i = to make or paint red (with a direct object, transitive)
- 'av'a = to blush or be red (without a direct object, intransitive)
- xwayyi = to brighten, turn white, or bleach (with a direct object, transitive)
- xwayya = to brighten, turn white, or bleach (without a direct object, intransitive)
- 'a$ni = to give a bath to someone (transitive)
- 'aa$ = to bathe or for there to be a ring around the Sun or Moon
- $uwóo' = to fear or be afraid of
- moyóoni = to feed
- $ukki = to frighten or startle a person (with a direct object, transitive)
- $ukka = to be frightened or startled (without a direct object, intransitive)
- wiiru = to play a flute
- xilla = to rain
- meewi = to roast vegetables (with a direct object, transitive)
- meewa = to roast vegetables (without a direct object, intransitive)
- heela = to sing
- waaki = to sweep (with a direct object, transitive)
- waaka = to sweep (without a direct object, intransitive)
- chaqálaqi = to tickle
- muváay = to wash the face
- naawi = to write, record, paint, draw, or inscribe (with a direct object, transitive)
- naawa = to be written, recorded, painted, drawn, or inscribed (without a direct object, intransitive)