Vocabulary

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Trees

treethqet
treesthuthiqut
foresthwthuthiqut
little treesthul’i’thqut
branchsts’ushtutsus
branchesst’uts’em
boughsqwul’utsus
needles of a treetth’ul’ts’
needles of a tree (also fish scales)tth’e’lumutth’
cone (pine cone, fir cone)p’isuts’
sapsxe’muth
pitch, chewing gumchumux
stumps’ulnuts
logqwlhey’
logsqwuqwilhi’
firewood, woodpilesyalh
pieces of firewoodsya’ullh
stacked (wood)st’un’al’tsup
pole, sapling (wood)tse’lumun
straight-grained (tree)s’uyumutth’ ~ s’uy’emutth’

General Plants

bushes, underbrushshishuts’
flowersp’eq’um
flowerssp’e’luq’um
field, gardenshpupunum’
grasssaxwul
leafsts’alha’
little berriesstth’i’tth’oom’
fern or berry sprouts, shootsthe’thqi’
rootkwumluhw ~ kwumuluhw
rootskwukwimluhw
little rootkwikwum’luhw
seed, something plantedspun’um
uprooted (ex. by the wind)qw’um
uproot (pull it out, ex. hair)qw’umut
moldpaqw
moldypapuqw
oatsluwen
peastl’ikw’un’
mossq’uts’i’
mushroomskwumsuli’qw