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'a:k'iwilaw-me'-ch'inehł'e:n school

je:nahch'ing'-me'-ya'xine:wh church (modern, Christian)

k'iwo'-me' the hook dancers in the Boat Dance

me'-ch'e'na:wh outhouse, (inside) bathroom

me'-ch'e:'iłsits' he's skinning (an animal)

me'-ch'iłt'oh skin (the animal)! flay it!

me'-ch'ing' into, towards the inside of it

me'-ch'iwa:t small bucket or bowl for acorn flour

me'-ch'ixine:wh telephone

me'-chwich-ch'iłchwe large burden basket, used for carrying firewood

me'-de'diłiw frying pan; pan where you put bread to cook

me'dil (traditional) canoe, (modern) boat

me'ist pestle, used to pound acorns

me'-k'e:'iłnay kitchen stove

me'-k'idilxuts he feels good (after drinking), he's high

me'-k'iłwul seed-beating basket, thresher into which seeds are beaten

me'-k'iłyo:l-na'yo:s slide trombone

me'-k'isinto'-ch'iłchwe stone dish for catching oil of cooking eels or fish

me'-k'ita:'ułtsit acorn leaching pit

me'-ky'o'diłye:wh a whistle (modern)

me'-na'a'diłwich rocking chair

me'-na'a'dinehł'e:n mirror

me'-na'dil perform (a dance step) inside a circle of dancers (a feature of the Brush Dance)

me'-na:k'iwilwe:l clip, magazine (with bullets)

me'-no'k'itul stirrup

me'-no:na'mil clothes basket

me'-no:nundiwa:tł' clock strikes the hour

me'-sa'k'ixawh eating bowl, basket

me'-siłiq' pie; anything dough-like or mud-like in a container

me'-ta'dina:n drinking glass

me'-tehna:na'k'iłdiw place for washing; washroom, bathroom; bathtub

me'-widwa:l clock

me'-yehk'iłyo:l a whistle (modern)

me'-yehk'iwta:n soapstone bowl of a pipe

me:da'ay-me' widow who has not yet cut her hair

ta'na:n-me'-ch'e:wilin faucet

ts'e:y-me' graveyard

tse:-me'-yehky'a'a:n cave

whida'-me'-ch'ixe:ne:wh he answered me

whik'iwiyul-me'-nolxit' my stomach

whila'

whilije'-me'-suxa:n my bladder

xayah-me' canyon near Sugar Bowl

xayts'a'-me'-silay cupboard

xokyunsa'a:n-me'-na:k'iqot he has a pain in his heart

yiduqa-to:-me' the ocean to the east of the world

Dictionary Entry [entry ID #1433] (related entries)

whila' • my hand, finger • noun [1sg possessor]Semantic domain: body

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text: Creation of animals, line 15 (full story)
and then where a big mountain was standing there, he [the creator] poked a hole with his finger

text: Creation of animals, line 47 (full story)
he twisted his poor old arms until his hands were way up high (near his shoulders)

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