A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z PREFIX SUFFIX aagah POS: noun DEFINITION: Spirit Mountain (place name) aagah POS: noun DEFINITION: sacred mountain of the Mojave (place name) aagamusi POS: verb DEFINITION: hide aagawatsü POS: verb DEFINITION: hide aampiwa POS: noun DEFINITION: semen; less "proper" word than nügüvi aampiwagangu POS: verb DEFINITION: ejaculated prematurely aanoo'ovi POS: noun DEFINITION: echo TRANSLATION: white clay fetus aano'ovi POS: noun DEFINITION: echo TRANSLATION: white clay fetus aano'ovi POS: noun DEFINITION: echo TRANSLATION: white clay fetus aapanapü POS: noun DEFINITION: man's personal name TRANSLATION: white clay lightning flash aapariki POS: noun DEFINITION: ironwood species aapariki'awa'anuntü POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) TRANSLATION: wide ironwood aaporosü POS: noun DEFINITION: apple aapü POS: noun DEFINITION: horn aapügantü POS: noun DEFINITION: horned; being who has horns aaroo POS: interjection DEFINITION: I think aasukit POS: noun DEFINITION: name of the chief of a marauding band which contained Apaches and some Chemehuevis; man's personal name aatakapitsi POS: noun DEFINITION: grasshopper aavi POS: noun DEFINITION: white clay aavi POS: noun DEFINITION: white clay aavimpah POS: noun DEFINITION: possibly Wheaton Springs; Ivanpah (place name) TRANSLATION: white clay water aavü POS: noun DEFINITION: hardpan aawügah POS: noun DEFINITION: clay banks aaya POS: noun DEFINITION: turtle aaya'asivü POS: noun DEFINITION: turtleshell agaigah POS: verb DEFINITION: tossing meal into mouth with finger or fingers agompi POS: noun DEFINITION: tongue agotsi POS: noun DEFINITION: tongue; pottery dipper agü'ivi POS: DEFINITION: slang expression for woman PLURAL: agü'ivimü, agü'iviwü aipatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: little boy aipatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: preadolescent boy aipatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: young boy PLURAL: aipatsiwü, a'aipatsiwü aipavah POS: noun DEFINITION: Kessler Springs (place name) TRANSLATION: boy water aiva POS: noun DEFINITION: adolescent older than aivatsi aivatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: young boy aivatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: adolescent boy; youth aivatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: adolescent, youth 12 years old and up PLURAL: aivawü, aivatsiwü aivaya POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: man's sister's son; man's female cousin's son PLURAL: aivayawü aivaya POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: nephew aiwa'itü POS: noun DEFINITION: anything visible, perceptible aka POS: noun DEFINITION: plant called in Spanish 'palmita' aka POS: noun DEFINITION: variety of edible seed akagupitsi POS: noun DEFINITION: cow killer (white) akasü'ü POS: noun DEFINITION: woman's personal name TRANSLATION: palmita flower akaüwarü POS: noun DEFINITION: very fine, mist-like rain TRANSLATION: palmita rain ampa POS: noun DEFINITION: voice (root word rarely occurring except in Talking Song) ampaga POS: verb DEFINITION: talk, speak ampagagah POS: verb DEFINITION: talking ampagah POS: verb DEFINITION: speaking, declaiming ampagahuviavü POS: noun DEFINITION: Talking Song (also known as Crying Song) ampaganküavi POS: noun DEFINITION: spokesman (for the high chief or for a group of people) ampagapü POS: noun DEFINITION: language ampagapü POS: noun DEFINITION: speech, oration, language ampagapurigatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: Jew TRANSLATION: bubbling talker PLURAL: ampagapurigatsiwü ampagarü POS: noun DEFINITION: speaker, one who speaks ampagatu'ikamü POS: noun DEFINITION: council ampagavaigah POS: verb DEFINITION: shouting ampanigaiva POS: noun DEFINITION: Paiute Mountains (place name) TRANSLATION: talking mountain anga POS: noun DEFINITION: bluejay anga POS: noun DEFINITION: blue jay angaanüwüwü POS: noun DEFINITION: small red ant people (plural) angaavi POS: noun DEFINITION: ant angaavi POS: noun DEFINITION: small red ant species angaavi POS: noun DEFINITION: small red ant species angavi POS: noun DEFINITION: arm angavü POS: noun DEFINITION: arm ankaga POS: verb DEFINITION: red ankagah POS: verb DEFINITION: red ankamukWivü POS: noun DEFINITION: red buckskin; red flannel ankanampa POS: noun DEFINITION: nickname applied to Southern Chemehuevi by Northern Chemehuevi TRANSLATION: red foot PLURAL: ankanampawü ankapah POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) TRANSLATION: red water ankasiaka POS: verb DEFINITION: pink ankasiakagah POS: verb DEFINITION: pink ankasiakagah POS: verb DEFINITION: being light red, being pink ankasiaküküpoakaiyu POS: verb DEFINITION: having light red (pink) gaps between the teeth ankasiarü POS: DEFINITION: pink ankasü'ü POS: noun DEFINITION: woman's personal name TRANSLATION: red flower ankaturumpü POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) TRANSLATION: red adobe antamua POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: brother-in-law, male cousin by marriage antamuwani POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: my brother-in-law antsi POS: noun DEFINITION: an edible seed, described as a grass seed antsi POS: noun DEFINITION: seed of a plant resembling wheat or oats antsivü POS: noun DEFINITION: plant resembling wheat or oats anü POS: interjection DEFINITION: ouch anuh POS: interjection DEFINITION: it hurts! it pains! said of backache, etc anunih POS: interjection DEFINITION: it hurts! it pains! said of backache, etc anü'ü POS: interjection DEFINITION: ouch, expression indicating pain caused by cold apati POS: noun DEFINITION: man's personal name arüh POS: interjection DEFINITION: it burns! ouch! said only of pain caused by heat arüh POS: interjection DEFINITION: ouch! said of pain caused by heat arürüh POS: interjection DEFINITION: it burns! ouch! said only of pain caused by heat arürürüh POS: interjection DEFINITION: it burns! ouch! said only of pain caused by heat arüü POS: interjection DEFINITION: it's hot arüüni POS: verb DEFINITION: hot asi POS: noun DEFINITION: salt; used only in Salt Song asi'a POS: noun DEFINITION: peel, skin, shell, fur asiga POS: verb DEFINITION: silver asihuviavü POS: noun DEFINITION: Salt Song asivo'a POS: verb DEFINITION: peel, skin asivü POS: noun DEFINITION: rind, peel, skin asompi POS: noun DEFINITION: salt asompü POS: noun DEFINITION: salt, alkaline asompü POS: noun DEFINITION: salt asona POS: verb DEFINITION: salt atakikü POS: noun DEFINITION: grass species with small edible tuber similar to piivu'u atamupi POS: noun DEFINITION: car atanüwüwü POS: noun DEFINITION: Crow people (plural) atapü POS: noun DEFINITION: crow feathers atapütsi POS: noun DEFINITION: crow PLURAL: atapütsiwü atapütsi POS: noun DEFINITION: crow atarakamuupitsi POS: noun DEFINITION: sandbar fly atarakamuupitsi POS: noun DEFINITION: sandbar fly atatuatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: young crow atavü POS: noun DEFINITION: cheek PLURAL: a'atavü atsi POS: noun DEFINITION: gun atsita POS: noun DEFINITION: wheat atsita POS: noun DEFINITION: wheat atsitaki POS: noun DEFINITION: palo verde species atsitakikakümpi POS: noun DEFINITION: palo verde seed atsivi POS: noun DEFINITION: head louse atsü POS: noun DEFINITION: bow, gun aüga POS: verb DEFINITION: new, young aünüwü POS: noun DEFINITION: young person aünüwü POS: noun DEFINITION: young person TRANSLATION: new person aüvi POS: adjective DEFINITION: now, today aüvisu POS: adjective DEFINITION: soon, in a moment aüwagaiyu POS: verb DEFINITION: being sensed or spiritually perceived aüwaru'iwa'atümü POS: noun DEFINITION: one who knows everything ava'ana POS: adjective DEFINITION: many ava'apah POS: noun DEFINITION: place name applied to two separate locations TRANSLATION: many mortars avi POS: noun DEFINITION: white clay avimpah POS: noun DEFINITION: possibly Wheaton Springs; Ivanpah (place name) TRANSLATION: white clay water avinootsi POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) TRANSLATION: (one who) carried white clay on his back avintatapo'o POS: noun DEFINITION: white spots like those of a fawn or small species of skunk TRANSLATION: white clay spots awa'ano POS: verb DEFINITION: wide awa'anuntü POS: verb DEFINITION: wide awatsa POS: DEFINITION: several awava POS: DEFINITION: several awavantümü POS: noun DEFINITION: several awavi POS: noun DEFINITION: chest, trunk from waist up awüwügaagantü POS: noun DEFINITION: place where there are clay banks aya POS: noun DEFINITION: land turtle, desert tortoise aya POS: noun DEFINITION: turtle, desert tortoise ayaampi POS: verb DEFINITION: lovely, pretty, delicious ayaampi-nii POS: verb DEFINITION: lovely ayaampitu'a-nii POS: verb DEFINITION: lovely ayah POS: interjection DEFINITION: exclamation denoting pleasure ayarovitsavü POS: noun DEFINITION: species of bush or shrub with roots resembling turtle legs TRANSLATION: turtle leg bush ayarupagarümü POS: noun DEFINITION: man's personal name TRANSLATION: black turtle ayata POS: noun DEFINITION: Mohave ayata POS: noun DEFINITION: Mohave PLURAL: ayatawü ayata POS: noun DEFINITION: Mojave PLURAL: ayatawü ayatanaugurüvipü POS: noun DEFINITION: Mohave Spirit Land (place name) ayatanaugutüvipü POS: noun DEFINITION: Mohave Spirit Land (place name) ayatapagah POS: noun DEFINITION: Fort Mohave (place name) TRANSLATION: Mohave river ayatapikavo'o POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) TRANSLATION: Mohave tank ayatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: woman's personal name TRANSLATION: turtle (dim) ayavaga POS: verb DEFINITION: afraid ayawa'i POS: verb DEFINITION: love, respect, admire ayawarawü POS: noun DEFINITION: unidentified bird species ("the little bird that chases crows") (plural) ayüh POS: interjection DEFINITION: ouch, it's cold! said only of pain caused by cold ayüü POS: interjection DEFINITION: it's cold cüna'agaipü POS: noun DEFINITION: coyote carcass cüna'agaiva POS: noun DEFINITION: S. H. Mountain (place name) TRANSLATION: coyote mountain cüna'ahuviavü POS: noun DEFINITION: coyote song cüna'ahuwipi POS: noun DEFINITION: Gila River (place name) TRANSLATION: coyote stream cüna'arasüapü POS: noun DEFINITION: false dawn (the time when coyotes howl) TRANSLATION: coyote dawn cüna'avah POS: noun DEFINITION: Chuckawalla Springs (place name) TRANSLATION: coyote water cüna'avi POS: noun DEFINITION: coyote cünawavi POS: noun DEFINITION: Coyote, the pre-human immortal personage cünawavi haagaru'agaipü POS: noun DEFINITION: secondary rainbow TRANSLATION: Coyote's discarded clothes cünawavi naro'ogaipü POS: noun DEFINITION: secondary rainbow TRANSLATION: Coyote's discarded shirt cütu'igah POS: verb DEFINITION: it is cold; said of weather cuuku POS: DEFINITION: one ha'a POS: noun DEFINITION: gourd rattle haagaru'agaipü POS: noun DEFINITION: old, worn-out, or discarded clothing haagaru'apü POS: noun DEFINITION: man's clothing ha'ah POS: noun DEFINITION: saguaro cactus; fruit of saguaro haakwirogi POS: noun DEFINITION: the valley where Needles is now situated (place name) ha'ataikuu POS: noun DEFINITION: Mexican haataruumpi POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) haatcaruumiwü POS: noun DEFINITION: Halchidhoma ha'aü POS: interjection DEFINITION: oh ha'avü POS: noun DEFINITION: gourd out of which dipper or rattle is made; gourd vine haawitcapü POS: noun DEFINITION: Bill Williams Fork (place name) ha'awütsaaru'inumpü POS: noun DEFINITION: gourd rattle ha'awütsaru'igah POS: verb DEFINITION: playing a rattle hagakaya POS: adjective DEFINITION: which hagani POS: adjective DEFINITION: do what hagani'ami POS: DEFINITION: How is that person related to you? TRANSLATION: how to you haganigai POS: adjective DEFINITION: how, why hagani'ingu POS: adjective DEFINITION: why, how haganis POS: interjection DEFINITION: I wish hagarua POS: adjective DEFINITION: where (motion) hagaruagai POS: adjective DEFINITION: why hagava POS: adjective DEFINITION: where (loc) hagavaantua POS: adjective DEFINITION: where (motion) hahaiva POS: noun DEFINITION: Kleinfelter (place name) hahaiva POS: noun DEFINITION: Klinefelter Springs (place name) hahavi POS: verb DEFINITION: lie down (singular) PLURAL: kwakwavi hai POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: father's younger brother or father's younger male cousin (said by man or woman); step-father haika POS: DEFINITION: Coyote's speech signature haiku POS: noun DEFINITION: white man haikurümpa POS: noun DEFINITION: man's personal name TRANSLATION: white man mouth haikuu POS: noun DEFINITION: white man, English haikuurupagarümü POS: noun DEFINITION: African-American TRANSLATION: black white man PLURAL: haikuurupagarümüwü haikuuyüwitcü POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) TRANSLATION: white men sitting down haikwiira POS: noun DEFINITION: a large variety of rattlesnake hainu hüün POS: interjection DEFINITION: heck haita POS: adjective DEFINITION: then, and then haitsi POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: man's older brother's or older male cousin's child; step-child hamatcuupa POS: noun DEFINITION: Mohave Rock hampuaavüni POS: noun DEFINITION: my shoulder hamütaroso POS: noun DEFINITION: jackrabbit hole; the hole into which the jackrabbit goes to shelter himself from the summer heat hanga POS: noun DEFINITION: who hangasapa POS: noun DEFINITION: someone hania POS: adjective DEFINITION: what, how hanih POS: noun DEFINITION: what hanoko POS: adjective DEFINITION: when hanokotüh POS: DEFINITION: when? hanopaitü POS: adjective DEFINITION: how many hanopaitümü POS: DEFINITION: how big hanopaiyuyumü POS: adjective DEFINITION: how many hapuisi POS: noun DEFINITION: site of old Blythe intake (place name) harimiivi POS: noun DEFINITION: village located on the Colorado River below Chemehuevi Valley (place name) harimyiivü POS: noun DEFINITION: (place name) hasiampa POS: noun DEFINITION: Hassayampa River (place name) hatpaanyaawü POS: noun DEFINITION: Maricopa hatpaawü POS: noun DEFINITION: Pima hatpah POS: noun DEFINITION: Papago haunkagah POS: verb DEFINITION: grey haunkWarü POS: DEFINITION: color of old, bleached bone ha'üpü POS: verb DEFINITION: good, nice, fun ha'üra'an nüwügaivaasu POS: DEFINITION: Chemehuevi idiom for "I think I am going to die" TRANSLATION: I wonder if I shall still be a person? ha'üsuntu'i POS: verb DEFINITION: like ha'üts POS: interjection DEFINITION: good, fine ha'ütsi POS: verb DEFINITION: good ha'ütühaiku POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: Mexican TRANSLATION: real white man ha'ütükaatsi POS: noun DEFINITION: wood rat TRANSLATION: real rat PLURAL: ha'ütükaatsiwü ha'ütükünu POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: grandfather or great-uncle, excluding male cousins of grandfather TRANSLATION: real künu ha'ütüküsavi POS: noun DEFINITION: a very swift hawk species ha'ütümaü POS: verb DEFINITION: clean, fix ha'ütüniwaantsi POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: first cousin of either sex TRANSLATION: real cousin DUAL: ha'ütünaniwaantsiwü --> PLURAL: ha'ütünananiwaantsiwü ha'ütütogintümü POS: noun DEFINITION: high chief hauwawankügarü POS: noun DEFINITION: home of the spirit-animal familiars (place name) TRANSLATION: bone grey peaks hauwawankügatü POS: noun DEFINITION: home of the spirit-animal familiars (place name) TRANSLATION: bone grey peaks ha'üy POS: interjection DEFINITION: good, fine ha'üyu POS: verb DEFINITION: well, good havagani POS: noun DEFINITION: shade house hava'ügangumpaa POS: verb DEFINITION: will enter the shade havavü POS: noun DEFINITION: shade havi POS: verb DEFINITION: lie (singular) PLURAL: kwavi havigah POS: verb DEFINITION: lying down havitcü POS: noun DEFINITION: that which lies; said e.g., of an elongated mountain or mountain chain, a fallen tree, hail lying on the ground, etc havitüaa POS: noun DEFINITION: bed hawayawi POS: noun DEFINITION: West Wells (place name) hawayawi POS: noun DEFINITION: West Wells (place name) haw'isi POS: verb DEFINITION: sneeze hawivi POS: noun DEFINITION: corn hawivü POS: noun DEFINITION: corn hawiyoavimpü POS: noun DEFINITION: corn cob hayaki POS: noun DEFINITION: name of a valley in Nevada (place name) hiimara'apütsi POS: noun DEFINITION: something hi'isi POS: noun DEFINITION: flower of sühüvimpü bush hiiwa POS: noun DEFINITION: kin, relative himpayok POS: adjective DEFINITION: few, a few himpü POS: noun DEFINITION: what himpüsapa POS: noun DEFINITION: something himpütsi POS: noun DEFINITION: plate, dish hini POS: noun DEFINITION: who, what hinih POS: noun DEFINITION: who hintsum'i POS: verb DEFINITION: pinch hiovi POS: noun DEFINITION: mourning dove hiovina'aivatsiwü POS: noun DEFINITION: Dove Boys (mythological characters) SINGULAR: hiovina'aivatsi hipakaigah POS: verb DEFINITION: being flat hipakaitsi POS: noun DEFINITION: something flat, a flat object hivi POS: verb DEFINITION: drink hivigah POS: verb DEFINITION: drinking hivivaani POS: verb DEFINITION: I will drink hiwa POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: parent; relative hiwagaipü POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: deceased relative, euphemism for 'deceased parent,' used only in the absence of bereaved son or daughter hiyoo POS: DEFINITION: call of mourning dove hiyovimamau'u POS: noun DEFINITION: Dove Woman hiyovinaaviwü POS: noun DEFINITION: Dove Brothers (dual/plural) hoa POS: noun DEFINITION: back hoaavoaki POS: noun DEFINITION: humped-back, hunchback hoagah POS: verb DEFINITION: scouting hoarü POS: noun DEFINITION: scout PLURAL: howarümü hohoguma POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: husband who was formerly the husband of a deceased sister or deceased female cousin TRANSLATION: bone husband hohogumawü POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: husband and wife, one of whom was formerly spouse of deceased sibling or cousin TRANSLATION: bone husband (PLURAL) hohonono'o POS: verb DEFINITION: lost (plural), fall, drop SINGULAR: wü'iku hohorapayuwitsi POS: noun DEFINITION: secret or derogatory name for a Walapai, used when one of that tribe is present TRANSLATION: bone splitter hohoviwa POS: noun (kin term) DEFINITION: wife who was formerly the wife of a deceased brother or deceased male cousin TRANSLATION: bone wife hohovü POS: noun DEFINITION: bone hohoya'ikwa'ipüwü POS: noun DEFINITION: thin person or animal DUAL: hohoya'ikwa'ipümüwü --> PLURAL: hohoyumikwa'ipüwü hoko POS: verb DEFINITION: big hokontava'atsi POS: noun DEFINITION: tree squirrel or ground squirrel TRANSLATION: big chipmunk PLURAL: hokontava'atsiwü hokontü POS: adjective DEFINITION: big; large hokontüpuutsivü POS: noun DEFINITION: large star, said of any star or planet conspicuous by its size hokontüwa POS: noun DEFINITION: big piece hokoso'avi POS: noun DEFINITION: spider hokoso'avi POS: noun DEFINITION: spider species honono'o POS: verb DEFINITION: drop (plural), fall SINGULAR: wü'i hoora POS: verb DEFINITION: dig hooyowigah POS: verb DEFINITION: playing flute or any instrument except drum or rattle hopaki POS: noun DEFINITION: hollow, dell hopakipü POS: noun DEFINITION: hole hopakitsü POS: noun DEFINITION: hole horagah POS: verb DEFINITION: digging horah POS: noun DEFINITION: post horapü POS: noun DEFINITION: hole; that which has been dug hotsia POS: noun DEFINITION: unidentified fox species PLURAL: hotsiawü hova POS: verb DEFINITION: pull out hovagah POS: verb DEFINITION: pulling up (brush or weeds) hovi POS: verb DEFINITION: moult hovi POS: noun DEFINITION: lumber hovi POS: noun DEFINITION: log hovo'ogah POS: verb DEFINITION: painting arrows hovo'onumpü POS: noun DEFINITION: black material used for this purpose howarü POS: noun DEFINITION: scout (e.g., the scout that travels back and forth between a shaman and his familiar to report on the latter's progress) hü POS: DEFINITION: Black Spider's speech signature