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| Hul’q’umi’num’ | English | Audio | Speaker | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| me’lu | bait (noun) | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| me’lum | bait (verb) | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| ‘e’xthim’ | dipnetting | Fishing and Food | ||
| pipiyatulh | duck-hunting from water or land | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| tqep | fish trap (type used in the sea, AJ) | Fishing and Food | ||
| shumun’tun | fish trap, setting it is called we’wutun’ | Fishing and Food | ||
| hi’wul’ten’um’ | fish: casting, fishing with a rod | Fishing and Food | ||
| thii’mulh | fishing: with a gaff hook | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| hwkw’asust | heat dry fish over flames (scorching the skin side) | Fishing and Food | ||
| slhewut’ | herring | Fishing and Food | ||
| slhelhwut’ | herring DIM (or an almost empty herring bucket) | Fishing and Food | ||
| tl’ulhnenum | hunt (in water, gathering octopus, seafood, flounder) | Fishing and Food | ||
| pi’atulh | hunt ducks | Fishing and Food | ||
| tl’e’lhunum’ | hunting (in water) | Fishing and Food | ||
| tl’e’lhunum’t | hunting (on water) | Fishing and Food | ||
| pipi’atulh | hunting ducks | Fishing and Food | ||
| puy’puy’atulh | hunting ducks | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| skwequp | lure used in cod fishing | Fishing and Food | ||
| shumun’tun | net pulled by two canoes | Fishing and Food | ||
| shumuntun | net: a big net like a dipnet pulled by two canoes | Fishing and Food | ||
| ‘uxthim’tun | net: dipnet | Fishing and Food | ||
| swultun | net: gillnet (noun) | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| peyts’tun | rod: fishing rod, casting rod | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| qwsey’un | set a net, fish with a gillnet | Fishing and Food | ||
| we’wutun’ | setting a fishtrap | Fishing and Food | ||
| qwusiyun’ | setting a net | Fishing and Food | ||
| stishum’ | slime (fish slime) | Fishing and Food | ||
| shtl’e’lhunum’ s’unum | spear: three-pointed spear used in saltwater fish hunting | Fishing and Food | ||
| te’ulh | two-pointed spear (used for salmon, harpoon style) | Fishing and Food | ||
| shxetl’ | weir | Fishing and Food | ||
| q’umxwus | winding fishing line | Fishing and Food | ||
| lhukw’tun | hook: gaff hook (a detachable hook attached to shaft with line) | Bill Seward | FH, tools | |
| sts’i’we’q | calcified discs along the lateral line (fin); gallstones | Fish Anatomy | ||
| hwlhuw’els | clams, shuck | Fish Anatomy | ||
| hwlhuw’ut | clams, shuck | Fish Anatomy | ||
| spuxuwe’ts | fin | Fish Anatomy | ||
| s-t’it’utsum | fin, adipose (soft boneless fin) | Fish Anatomy | ||
| shq’e’wutsun | fin, dorsal | Fish Anatomy | ||
| q’utmun’ [H], q’utmun [R] | fin, fish; fin(s), pectoral | Fish Anatomy | ||
| sxuy’usa’qw | fish head | Fish Anatomy | ||
| thitha’qw | fish heads, big | Fish Anatomy | ||
| tth’ul’ts’ | fish scales, tree needles | Fish Anatomy | ||
| st-shimuws | fish slime | Fish Anatomy | ||
| sxuw’u | fish spine | Fish Anatomy | ||
| sxup’shun’ [H], sxup’shun [R] | fish tail | Fish Anatomy | ||
| sheey’ | gills | Fish Anatomy | ||
| skwa’mutsun | hunchback | Fish Anatomy | ||
| s-tishum | slime | Fish Anatomy | ||
| shtse’lhnulh | barb, on a hook or spear | Fishing and Food | ||
| tsts’um’ | bite: get a bite (fishing) | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| t’hwaalh | clams, dig / dig to get clams | Fishing and Food | ||
| stth’hwas | clams, steamed | Fishing and Food | ||
| uxthim’tun | dipnet | Fishing and Food | ||
| ts’uxthim’tun | dipnet, make a | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| squmkwala’ | fingerling or fry | Fishing and Food | ||
| squli’qum’kwal’a’ | fingerlings or fry | Fishing and Food | ||
| tqep | fish trap | Fishing and Food | ||
| kw’ayukw | fish, troll (verb) | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| skwathshun’ | fisherman, good fisherman | Fishing and Food | ||
| thii’mulh | fishing | Fishing and Food | ||
| tsetsul’ulhtun’ | fishing | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| tl’e’lhunum | fishing an salt water with a spear or hook | Fishing and Food | ||
| lhuqul’shetun’ | fishing line | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| kw’akw’i’ukw | fishing, trolling | Fishing and Food | ||
| shthii’mulh | gaff hook | Fishing and Food | ||
| tsts’um’um | have fish take the hook | Fishing and Food | ||
| tth’um’unu | hook, halibut fish hook | Fishing and Food | ||
| skwequp | lure used in cod fishing | Fishing and Food | ||
| qwsey’unset | net, fish with a gillnet | Fishing and Food | ||
| swultun | net, gillnet (noun) | Bill Seward | Fishing and Food, Tools | |
| shumun’tun, shumuntun | net, pulled by two canoes (also fish trap) | Fishing and Food | ||
| hul’xuw’e | pitlamp (for fish) | Fishing and Food | ||
| q’i’laam’ | preserve | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| stl’umkw’ | roe | Fishing and Food | ||
| ts’um’ush | roe | Fishing and Food | ||
| we’wutun’ | setting a fishtrap | Fishing and Food | ||
| hwshamusels ~ hwshamusuls | smoke fish | Fishing and Food | ||
| shama’qwt | smoke fishheads | Fishing and Food | ||
| qw’ay’tsup’ | smoke herrings with ironwood | Fishing and Food | ||
| pu-pun’um’ | spawning, planting | Fishing and Food | ||
| s’unum | fish spear, shaft of a harpoon | Fishing and Food, tools | ||
| qethuhw | spear shaft (fishing spear) | Fishing and Food, tools | ||
| lhew’qum’ | mussel | Bill Seward | Fishing and Food | |
| tl’i’nu | oil: oolichan or herring oil | Fishing and Food | ||
| tstl’uxwtl’uxw | oyster: gather, have oysters | Fishing and Food | ||
| tstl’ixwtl’uxw | oyster: gathering oysters | Fishing and Food | ||
| hwlhuw’els | shuck clams | Fishing and Food | ||
| lhuw’els | shuck shellfish | Delores Louie | Fishing and Food | |
| qw’im | disembark, get off vehicle; get out of the water (swimmers, seals) | Motion | ||
| qw’elum | disembarking, get out of the water PL; get off a vehicle PL | Motion | ||
| qw’iqw’um’ | disembarking, getting out of the water | Motion | ||
| qw’uqw’i’qw’um’ | disembarking, getting out of water DIM | Motion | ||
| shqw’iqw’um’ | disembarking, going to shore: where one is going ashore | Motion | ||
| qwus | fall in water | Motion | ||
| qwuqwus | falling into the water | Motion | ||
| tsetsuw’ | beach: down by a beach or river bank | Ruby Peter | Natural world | |
| qequm’ | calm spot in water, or calm when the tide is changing | Delores Louie | Natural world | |
| sqequm’ | eddy, calm water | Water and Tide | ||
| lum’ | fold, erode (of land falling off into sea or river) | Natural world | ||
| shum’shum’ | low tide | Water and Tide | ||
| tskwalus | low tide (very low, when the water goes way out) | Delores Louie | Water and Tide | |
| shqwun’u | ocean, big water | Water and Tide | ||
| kw’atl’kwa | saltwater | Water and Tide | ||
| sheshum’ | shallows | Water and Tide | ||
| lheelstuhw | shore: beach it, take to shore | Motion | ||
| slhelhul’t | shore: beached but still in water | Motion | ||
| lheelustum | shore: beached, brought to shore | Motion | ||
| lheel | shore: come to shore, go from centre to the side of the longhouse | Motion | ||
| hun’lhelt | shore: get ashore | Motion | ||
| lhulheel’ | shore: going ashore | Delores Louie | Motion | |
| lhulhi’lheel’ | shore: going ashore DIM | Motion | ||
| hwtuy’tiim’ | tide reverses against the waterflow (for ex, at the mouth of a river) | Delores Louie | Water and Tide | |
| hwts’alum | tide turns | Water and Tide | ||
| stth’em | tide: the outgoing tide | Water and Tide | ||
| ti’telhnulh | wind goes against the water | Water and Tide | ||
| shum’shum’ | low tide | Water and Tide | ||
| hwtsakw | low tide | Water and Tide | ||
| tsukwtsukw | low tide | Water and Tide | ||
| shtl’upnets | under water, bottom of the ocean | Water and Tide | ||
| tskwalus | very low tide, water is way out | Water and Tide | ||
| sul’lits’ | high tide | Water and Tide | ||
| squm’il’ | high tide | Delores Louie | Water and Tide | |
| st’iqul’unup | tide-flats, muddy spot | Water and Tide | ||
| phwat | blow; blow out (e.g. whale) | Other | ||
| qlhilum | cross from shore to shore or over the mountain | Motion | ||
| q’ulets’t | protect, shelter | Other | ||
| (s)q’ulets’ | protected, sheltered | Other | ||
| skwathshun’ | fisherman: good fisherman; also name of monster in the Stoneheads story | Fishing and Food | ||
| hwskw’akw’iyuqw | fisherman •Using a rod and reel. | People | ||
| ts’e’wi’ | clam or oyster shell | sea life | ||
| t’emukw’ | fish roe | sea life | ||
| ts’um’ush | herring eggs | sea life | ||
| haan’ | humpback salmon (Chemainus,Nanoose) | sea life | ||
| ’eeyt | lingcod (Chemainus, Nanoose) | sea life | ||
| ’ey’xal’lh | little crabs (Chemainus, Nanoose) | sea life | ||
| tl’uxwtl’uxw | oyster | sea life | ||
| wetsi’ | perch | sea life | ||
| xihwe | red sea urchin | sea life | ||
| tuqwtuqw | red snapper | sea life | ||
| t’q’as | rock cod | sea life | ||
| hwiya’thuwits | rock cod (Nanaimo) | sea life | ||
| ma’mul’ | sand crayfish, mud shrimp | Ruby Peter | sea life | |
| thikwt | sea cucumber | sea life | ||
| q’uye’mun | sea shells | sea life | ||
| tth’uqw’uye’ | sea snail | sea life | ||
| tumulqlh | starfish | sea life | ||
| sxuw’q’um’ | steelhead | sea life | ||
| tth’umukwa’ | tommy cod | sea life | ||
| yusqwuqwis | in the water (moving along = yu) | Motion | ||
| sqwe’qwuqwis | in the water DIM | Motion | ||
| sqw’iqw’um’ | out of the water | Motion | ||
| sqw’im’qw’um’ | out of the water PL | Motion | ||
| p’ukwten | buoy, float | Tools | ||
| xeetth’ | buoy, marker for shallow area | Tools | ||
| t’eets’ | cross sticks for smoking salmon or barbecuing meat | Ruby Peter | Tools | |
| shumut’alus | cross sticks, stretcher sticks for drying fish | Tools | ||
| ’uxthim’tun | dipnet | Tools | ||
| xwul’xwul’u | duck net poles | Tools | ||
| shumun’tun | fish trap | Tools | ||
| tqep | fish trap | Tools | ||
| kw’iyukw’~kw’ouyukw’ | fishhook | Tools | ||
| kw’oukw’iyukw | fishing hook | Tools | ||
| tal’a’qw | float for a boat, log boom | Tools | ||
| swultun | gillnet | Tools | ||
| ’ukw’tun | hook | Tools | ||
| tth’um’unu | hook made out of bone | Tools | ||
| shuptun | knife (Chemainus, Nanoose) | Tools | ||
| ’uxtun | knife (Nanaimo), scraper (Chemainus, Nanoose) | Tools | ||
| skwequp | lure used in cod fishing | Tools | ||
| muq’unuthun’ ~muq’unutun | pole | Tools | ||
| pi’kwun | roasting stick, sticks for barbecuing | Tools | ||
| tth’aqwi’tun | spear point of fish spear | Tools | ||
| sthulq’ul’shutun | string for spear or harpoon | Tools | ||
| te’ulh | two-pointed spear, prongs of spear | Tools | ||
| shxetl’ | weir | Tools | ||
| kw’ikw’ul’shun | fishing line | Tools, Fishing and Food | ||
| sunihwulh | canoes | transportation | ||
| lhqun’utun | anchor, piling, sinker | Bill Seward | transportation | |
| qwsun’utun | anchor, rock used as anchor | transportation | ||
| lhultun | bailer | ? | transportation | |
| pout | boat | Delores Louie | transportation | |
| pou’ult | boats | Ruby Peter | transportation | |
| sq’lhan | bow of boat, front of a car | transportation | ||
| t’xwuwulhtun | canoe ramp | transportation | ||
| snuhwulh | canoe, car | transportation | ||
| poupt | little boat | transportation | ||
| snin’hwulh | little canoe | transportation | ||
| snun’in’hwulh | little canoes | transportation | ||
| ’aalh | board | Verbs: Activity | ||
| kw’its’ut | butcher | Verbs: Activity | ||
| kw’t-s’els | butcher | Verbs: Activity | ||
| lhtsalu’ | fishing | ? | Verbs: Activity | |
| hiwulte’num’ | fishing | Verbs: Activity | ||
| kw’ayukw | fishing, trolling | Verbs: Activity | ||
| xwkw’e’yun’ | net • pulling in a net | Verbs: Activity | ||
| qwse’yun | net • to throw out a net,to set a net | Verbs: Activity | ||
| qw’umuwst | pluck • to pluck it (a fowl) | Verbs: Activity | ||
| hwlhuwut | shuck | Verbs: Activity | ||
| hwshamusuls | to smoke-dry fish | Verbs: Activity | ||
| hwshamust | to smoke-dry it (fish) | Verbs: Activity | ||
| s-uthnuts | bay | Bill Seward | Water and Tide | |
| p’ukwp’ukw | buoyant | Water and Tide | ||
| sliqwul | calm weather, sea conditions | Water and Tide | ||
| lhulwulh | canoe, bailing out a | Water and Tide | ||
| q’xuw’lh, q’xhuw’lh | canoe, war canoe (parallel on each side) | Water and Tide | ||
| tl’up | deep | Bill Seward | Water and Tide | |
| tl’itl’up | deep below, lower (e.g. below a certain level) | Water and Tide | ||
| s-tl’up | deep place, deep hole in the river | Water and Tide | ||
| nuqum | dive | ? | Water and Tide | |
| hun’qum’ | diving | Water and Tide | ||
| p’ukw | float (come to the surface of water) | ? | Water and Tide | |
| p’kwut | float something | ? | Water and Tide | |
| p’kwuthut | float up, smth made itself float up | Water and Tide | ||
| p’ukw-p’ukw | float, smth that floats high | Water and Tide | ||
| p’up’ekw | floating or afloat | Bill Seward | Water and Tide | |
| qu-qum’ul | flooding or rising tide | Water and Tide | ||
| sun’we’qun | inside a bay, partly inside a container | Water and Tide | ||
| skwthe’ | island | Bill Seward | Water and Tide | |
| skwu’kwuthe’, skwul’i’kwthe’ | islet(s) DIM (e.g. islets near Swartz bay), islands | Water and Tide | ||
| tl’ekw’tl’ukw’un huy’qwoonewt-hw | lighthouse | Water and Tide | ||
| skwi’kwthe’ | little islands DIM | Bill Seward | Water and Tide | |
| (hw)tsukwtsukw | low tide | Bill Seward | Water and Tide | |
| sqtheq | narrows (geographical term) | Water and Tide | ||
| shqwun’u | ocean, big water | Water and Tide | ||
| kw’atl’kwa | ocean, sea water, saltwater | Water and Tide | ||
| sxuluts’ | rough wirling action of fast moving water, usually at tide change (e.g. at Porlier Pass, Cape Mudge) | Water and Tide | ||
| pute-num | sail (verb) | Water and Tide | ||
| putun’em’ | sail (verb) | Water and Tide | ||
| hwq’uy’q’uyuxum | site of whirlpools | Water and Tide | ||
| (hw)q’aq’iyum’ | slow-moving whirlpool | Delores Louie | Water and Tide | |
| shtem | swim underwater (e.g. a fish) | Delores Louie | Water and Tide | |
| t’itsum | swim, at the surface | Delores Louie | Water and Tide | |
| shutum’ | swimming | Water and Tide | ||
| tskwalus | the season of very low tides | Water and Tide | ||
| hwtuy’tiim’ | tide reverses against the waterflow | Delores Louie | Water and Tide | |
| shyul’uxunum’ | tide turns | Water and Tide | ||
| tsakwulus | tide, a place where low tide exposes a wide beach; also used as a place name | Water and Tide | ||
| tth’etth’um | tide, ebbing | Water and Tide | ||
| q’-p’un’um | tie (e.g. boat to wharf or branch) | Water and Tide | ||
| kw’ulh | tip over in canoe; spill | Water and Tide | ||
| shum’shum’ | very low water, going aground | Water and Tide | ||
| sixwum | wade | Water and Tide | ||
| ha’yul’uq | wave | Water and Tide | ||
| thi-the’luq | wave, big | Water and Tide | ||
| q’uy’uxum | whirlpool | Water and Tide | ||
| q’uyq’uyuxum | whirlpools | Water and Tide | ||
| pqwutsun | sand | Delores Louie | Water and Tide, nature | |
| ts’um’utun | hook: a special fish hook for fishing that opens out | |||
| ts’um’ush | roe: herring roe |
