a long while
tllsda iijasda
a lot
kwaan gudsdll
a part
gud sda
red abalone (california abalone shells - only the shell)
gulxa
abalone
- Gaalahlyan
- galGahlyan
- GalGuuhlkyan
- GaalGahlxyang
- GalGahlyan
- Gaal’uhlyan
abalone gonads
ts’iik’aal
abandon
ts’aasdaa
abandon (everyone abandons a person)
sGaana sk’aasdll
abandon (leave behind by walking away)
t’aas.slaay.ya gan
abandoned
t’aadll slaay.ya gan
abandoned (they all)
ts’aasdaayaahgan
abashed
Giidaxa
able
hllnga
able (willing to work)
- guula
- guull
abnormal
aak’iixa
aboard (getting a board)
isdllgang
aboard (getting aboard a boat on the beach)
kaasakaadll
aboard boat, car, wagon
guuGaaw
about that time/about then
waasdluu
about the same time
- dluu tl’aaw
- gaaydluuxan
about this time
huuyaad dluu
about to
- xidii
- xidyang (plural)
about/now (this much)
aasdluu
above
- sah gii
- sah gwa
- sah xwa
- siixaayd
above (from above)
sah sda
above (in the air)
sahxaayd
above (way above)
sah sda GaaGwii
absent
gaw
absolutely
daanxanuu
accident (a person has an accident)
aahljagudGang
accident (behaving wrong)
- aahljuugudGang
- aahlts’agudGang
accident (hurt)
- aahljiigudgang
- aahljuugu Gang
accordion (playing the accordion)
dang kiing.ang
aching
hldanxagan
aching and throbbing
hldanxaagang
across / bridge
hlGaagids
across from
iinaxuusda
across going
- iinaxwii
- iinaxwa (used in a sentence)
act (more than one person doing something)
gangxaaw
acting
- dlljuu
- iits’iGung
acting bad
dlljuugudGang
acting slick in a bum situation
xangxiisGalang
acting spiteful against advice (more than one person)
skaldiidllxaaw
acting spiteful against advice (one person)
skaldiidlljuu
acting up
aahljuudii
- acting up after being praised
- adding a little bit
isgid
action word - doing - ie to paint
ta (k’uudlaan)
adams apple
kaagan Ga k’aay
add
’waagii
add on
klasgid
adding more verbally
’waagiikilt’is
address (honourary address)
kaakuuGu
admiration (an expression of admiration)
haajiis sgwa
admire
aaniisgwaa
admire / good thing
haajis.sgwaa (aa)
admire (something you like or admire-person or an object)
haajiis.sgwaa (aa)
admire/enjoy/pretty one
- haan.niisgwah
- haan.nasgwah
adopt (ie people)
- kiiGad
- kiiGid
- kiiGiidan
adultery
kaajigid
advantage (taking advantage)
’la gii ga Giihl
advice (against advice)
kil aayguu
advice (give each other good advice)
gud kihldllGa
advise children when growing up
kil dllGuhlGa
adze
- xuut’a
- xuut’u
adze (sharp adze)
- xuut’aw
- xuut’awaay
- xuut’awaay k’ii
affair (when a man has two women)
- sgwaanagwaay
- sgwaanagaay
afraid (acting afraid/expression of horror/extreme fright)
- haama yaa
- haamii ’uu
afraid of the cold or wet
k’aahl ts’ing.ga
afraid to go out in cold or wet
k’aahl ts’iing.ga
African (black skin person)
K’al hlGaahl
after
- dllGaaw’u
- gaaysda
- sda’uu
- sihlGa
- silaay
after (go after)
halxa
after (leftover)
siilaay
after / lay a body down
dllGaaw
after a while
- gaasingdluu
- isdii kaawdii
- Gid kaawdii
after awhile/sometime
tllsdluuxan
after someone
dllGa
after something
sda
after something (after lightning flashed four times)
dlgaagaay
after that
- asgaay sdaawuu
- gaaysda.uu
- gaaysta
- gaaysdaaw
after that, this
’waasda asGii
after that/take away
- ’waasdaawuu
- ’waasdaaw
after this
asiigus da
afterwards
gaayst’aa.uu
again
- asing
- asing’a
- iisang
- ising
- iising
against
- t’isda
- xanhlGid
against will
guuda ilgyang
age
guuda ga
age (old age)
k’ay
age (middle aged)
- kwaasgida
- kwaasgid
- kwaasgid.da
- kwaasgidas
- kwaasgiidas
agile or catty
iijala
agile and fast
sgiing.ala
agony (rolling around in agony)
saalang chamjuuGaalang
ahead (in front of something)
kunGasii
aim
kyaak’aasgid
aiming
kyaak’aajaagid
air
siingaay kaahlii
air force
xidging.gwans
air out the house
naasii hla sinsd
airplane
- xidgwangs
- gina xidgwangs
airport - thing fly around place
gina xiidgwangs daanaay
alarm clock
k’aadsgiidaay
alarm sound
hlkildaasdll
alas (is there any way I can turn back?)
aa.jaadii ya
alas
- aa.jaadii
- haajaadiiyaa
Alaska people
- Hllnaagids
- K’aayk’aanii
the old ones / lava rocks fused together
albatross (black footed albatross - diomedea nigripes)
sk’aay
kal
alder (rotten alder)
klaas.s’aaga
alder medicine
- kal xil
alder roots before it becomes small
juull
alike / same
gaa.ngang
alive
xaaynang.ah
alive - almost alive
xaaynanga aahlging
alive (keep alive with medicine)
xil xaayna.nga
alive (keep alive)
ging xaayna.nga
all
- Guu
- tl’iGa
all (of you)
Gaang.nga
all gone / nothing left
haayluu
all of a sudden
- aang.guusGiisdaxan
- ang.guusGiisdaxan
- angxaaxan
- aang.xaxang
- aang.xaxan
all right
- damxan Gid
- huu laagang
all the same
gudgang.ang xaanuu Giida
all the time
gii gang
almost
- amts’uxan
- guusGaaxgii
- guusGaaxgiiyu
- hlkuuGwayxas.sgii
- hlkuuGwiits’ahlsgii
- k’aang.ngal
- sgiigan
- sgii (present tense)
almost trip / fall or drop something
- aamasdii
alone
- guusda gang
- guusdagan
alone (a person who lives alone)
sGang gwa Gila
along
- daal
along (going along loaded ie fish loaded)
gaay sdamgingdal
along (going along on a car / boat)
ts’aan daal
along (going along straight)
hiiGadal
along (going along)
gaay tlaaygingdal
along (strung along something)
Gaagiid
along side
- da’uhl
- t’isdaxan
- t’iisdaxan
- daagulgii
alongside / beside
taawGan
already
- klayn
- klayn
- tllgin
- tllging
already - long since passed
tlldluxan
already did something
isda gan
already on board
kaadll gii gang
also
- ising
- asing
although
- sk’yaaxan
- sk’yanuu
alumroot (heuchera chlorantha)
- xuuajii xilGa
- xuujii xil
always
- gii
- gii gang
- gii ga
- dii gwang
- gang
- gyaaguhl
- k’uung.ajaa
- k’yahl
- sGwaanang
always do something
- isda gii
- isda gii gang
always ready
daawnga
always the same
Gid gii
amaze (when something amazes you)
hay hay (drag out the second hay)
ambitious
- guula
- guull
- gwaal.laga
- gwaall ga
American (usa)
wasdan xaayda
American dipper (bird, cinclus mexicanus)
- Gandll ts’u ts’id kaan.niiya
- gandll ts’u ts’u kaan.niiya
- hlkyaama
- chiixu k’an
ammunition
- jiigu hlGaay
amongst
- suuGayd
- suuGiid
amongst (a gathering of people)
suuGa
amongst us
- id suuGa
amount - a big amount
tl’atjuu
amount / when / sometime / estimate / how much
- giisluxan
- giisluu
ancestors
- kuunasii
- kuuniisii
ancestors (those living before us)
id kunGasda ga xaaynang.as
ancestors come from
chiiGa’adhlxaaga
ancestry (mention your line of respect, people you come from)
gwaay k’iiyaanda
anchor
- t’aahllaay
- t’aahll
anchor (stopped anchored)
- t’aahla gaaysdll
- t’aahla gaysdll
anchored up
gaaying dii
anchored up early in the morning
- gaaying.uuhlas
- gaaying.uuhll
anchored up floating (more than one boat)
t’aahla gaaylang
Ancient Murrelet / night bird (synthliboramphus antiquus)
- SGin xaana
- Sk’in xaana
- Sk’in haana
and
- ’ad
- ’wagyin
’wagyin uu dii ... (and then I...) -- kilhgula
and the next one
is.sii gyin
and then
- huu
- ’waa t’aanii
- ’waaGiixan
- ’wagyinuu
and then again and again
- ’wagyin asing asing
- ’wagyin iising asing
and yet
- iilaawu
- iilaaw
- iilaaw t’anii
Anemone (green sea anemone, anthopleura spp.)
S’iip
anger (not feeling good towards someone)
guudang.ngaay sgapjuu
anger (stretching fingers out in anger when you are mad at someone)
kawtaadang
angry
- st’ii xaa gang
(response to a question).
angry / mad
kaahlii hildang
animal of the forest
- gyaGwang
- gyaGun
animals
- gyaGwang
- gyaGan
animals attacking with horns or antlers
kwahgudan
ankle
k’yaahlt’aamal
ankle (twist your ankle)
t’aa k’uhlGahlda
announcements
gina Gansda suu
announcements (going to be announcements)
kiing.aayxidii
announcements (message from far away)
kiing.aatl’xagaay
annoyed
gudsing.Gidts’ii
answer back
xang.gyang suu
antlers
- k’yamGa
- k’yamGaay
- k’yamGii
anus (anus hole)
- slluxuul
- st’llxuul ts’ii
anus muscle
- slluxuuxaay
- st’llxuulxaay
anxious
- aan.nagung
- aay.yang
- aayuuwang
anxious to give
guugiigid
anxious to go
guuda kaaw
anxious / eager, grabby
hlgaawjuu
anything (junk)
gina giid
anybody / whoever
tl’aagii
anyhow
tllk’waanii
anyone (for you)
- kl’agan
- tl’agan
anything
- gina
- gina xan
anytime
tllsdluuxan
anytime now
- haay.yadxan
- haay.yadxanuu
anyway
tl’l k’waan.nii
anyway / any how
tllguuxan
anywhere
- tllguusda
- tllGanxan
anywhere (from anywhere)
tllguusda xan
apart
gud iila
apart (falling apart)
xunhll
apart (take apart)
guudGiisda iidlxa
apart (ie threads coming apart)
k’aahlwang
apologize first
sing kihlging klaagang
apology
- singkihlgii
- singhihlgiig
appetite (big appetite - hoggy)
- hlgaapjuu
- k’uudaga
- k’uuts’ii
appetite (no appetite)
s’anjuu
apple - juicy apple
k’aay xaawa
apple (cultivated / sweet)
k’aay xaawla
apple juice
k’aay xaaw
apples (crab apples)
k’aay
apron
- kangiiGaagya
- kangiigiigaay
- kangiigya
apron (1/2 an apron with pockets -- loin cloth)
k’yahtl’xyang
apron (full apron)
kangiiGaagyang
apron (short apron with pockets)
k’yahl tl’llging
apron (wearing an apron), dance apron
xyahl k’yahl tl’lging
apron (work apron has pockets)
k’aaayxiida
archaeologist (lit.dig expert)
hlGay iiGaayGa
are you
- gyiiu da
are you
dang gwa
area or territory (ie fishing spot)
gyus
argilite
- hlGaa hlGahl s’aagas
- k’aas hlGaa
- kwaa
argilite dish
hlGaa kaayhla
argue
- k’iiwang
- kil xiinuudGa
arm
xyaay
arm (put your arm, arm & arm, with another person)
sk’udhll
arm & arm (standing, sitting or walking)
sk’uut’ajah
arm (short arm)
xyaay huujuu
arm (short arms)
xyaay huudala
arm pit
sk’uuda
arm pit (inside your arm pit)
sk’uuda kaahlii
arm rotating (ie turning a handle or winding up to throw something)
xinhlGalang
arms spread out
xiisGid
around
- Gaadáng
- Gaaduu
- Gaaduu sgamguhlGaahlda
- gaagang
around (go around something)
kaahlGahldaas
around (going around)
isgwang
around a pond
suu Gaadguuxan
around here
- aasGaayd
- asGid
arrange (give direction)
kil GuuhlGa
arrested (locked up)
- k’aayjuguhlda
- k’aayjuguhldas
arriving
GidGad dii
will arrive
GidGad Gas ga
almost arriving / almost there
GidGad xidii
arrived
- GidGiidan
- GidGad xaa
- istl’lxa
- istl’lxan
arrive
- istl’lxaay.ya
- kaadtl’lx aa
- kaatl’lx aa
- kaadxaa
- xanjudhlxaaya
arrive in an inlet
GidGad ts’aaya gan
arrived (first arrived)
GidGadxa
arrived (he/she)
ll GidGiidan
arrived (made it to a place)
GidGad
arrived (they)
tl’lGidGiidan
arrived in great numbers
sk’uutl’lxa
arrived safely
kaagant’xa
arrived safely (more than one person)
kaagantl’lxa
arriving from somewhere by car, boat or plane
xanjuuinhlxa
arriving soon
istl’xaadaalga
arrow (sharp pointed arrow)
- ts’iit’alang k’ii
- ts’iit’alang.ngaay
arrow with no point
k’uung.aal
arrow with sharp point
- ts’iit’alang
- ts’iit’alang.aay
arthritic hands or bow legged
hlt’adjuu
arthritis
- skuus kaahlii st’ii
artistic
- stllnll
- stllnlas
not artistic
stllngudGa
as a result
sindiiyuu
as usual
- gyaa guu xan, gyaaguhlxan
- gyan.naadsxan, gyan.nadsxan
- gyan.nadsxanGaxan
- gyan.nansxan
- t’aanii, t’aaGanii
- uu k’yahl
- ’waaGansdaxan, ’waanadsxan
- ’waat’aanii
- ’wansxan
ashamed
- Giidaxa
- Giidaxaaga
- sGiida
ashamed (ashamed of a person talking)
kil Giidgang
ashes (human ashes)
- hldalxid
- hldalxadaay
ashore (coming ashore)
- gaaydGuu
- gaaysGuu
ashore (debris coming ashore)
gaaytaaysgid
ashore (going out from shore)
gaaysda
ashore (group coming ashore)
gaayGuu
ask
suu
ask about
- kyaanang
ask for
giinang
ask someone to go with you on a boat.
ts’aanhlang
at
guu
at last / in awhile
Giida kaawdii
at that time
- dyadluu
- gaay dluu
- gan.nud
- ’waasdluu
at that time (around)
gaaynawdii
at that time or the same time
dyaa dluu
at the same time
dluu
ate
nan hll hlgaaGats’igan. I ate the whole thing (ie crab)
ate fast
hlgapGadts’ii
ate the whole plate of food.
GaamGats’ii
atmosphere
sin
attention (trying to get someone’s attention)
kaajuudaay.ya
attention (paying attention to someone)
k’aaynang
auntie (man talk about)
skaanGa
aunti (man talk to)
skaanaay
auntie (woman talk about)
skaanGa
auntie (woman talk to)
skaanaay
auntie’s (woman & man talk about)
skaanGalang
avalanche
t’aaGaaw xundalsah
awake
skints’ii
awake (you are awake)
- skyana
- skyanas
- skyan.naay
awake (barely awake)
skisGid
awake (becoming awake)
skints’ii gil
awake (getting wide awake)
skints’igihl
awake (wide awake)
- skints’i Gil
- skints’iigihl
away (going away messy)
- jaahlaxid
- jaahlt’axid
- jaahlgwiixid
away (from you)
’waaxuusda
away (ie stepping aboard a departing plane or boat)
kaadll
away (move away from that)
hinda
away (putting things away)
tllinsguhl
awhile (after awhile)
kaawdiiyuu
awhile (in a while)
- Giid kaawdii
- Gid kaawdii
awhile back (the other day)
’waadaahlGa
axe
kiitl’ljaaw
axe (sharp axe)
- kiitl’jaawaay k’ii
- kyuutl’ljaawaay
