User:Lvovmauro/C. Hart Merriam's Tübatulabal words

This is a list of Tübatulabal words recorded by C. Hart Merriam, with equivalents from Voegelin's working dictionary where available.

Currently completed up to page 15.

Abbreviations

• B = Pahnʹ-kă-lăʹ-che (Bankalachi) of Deer Creek
• T = Tubotelobela (Tübatulabal) of Kern Valley

Wordlist

• Adʹ-zo-ah-pitʹ "Black phœbe (Sayornis nigricans)" (T)
• Ahʹch-ăʹ-chuk "Mole (Scapanus) (B)
• Ah-ahʹst "Raven (Corvus corax)", "Crow (Corvus americanus)" (T)
• Ahk-kah-pisht "Raven (Corvus corax)", "Crow (Corvus americanus)" (T) = ʔakapišt
• Ahʹ-mah "a gigantic extinct bird" (T) = ʔa·ma·(hi) (“mythical animal”)
• Ah-si-bishtʹ "California jay (Aphelocoma)" (T)
• Ah-sowʹ-wut "Golden eagle (Aquila)" (T) = ʔa·šawɨt
• Ahʹ-wahnʹ "Horns" (T) = ʔa·wat (in 3p possessed form)
• Alʹ-wut "Crow (Corvus americanus) (B)
• Ang-alʹ "Wing", "Feather" (T)
• Ă-sur-kahlʹ "Gray tree squirrel (Sciurus fossor)" (T) = ʔɨšɨʔɨgal
• Benʹ-nĕʹ "Badger (Taxidea) (T)
• Bo-koo-vist "Dog" (T) = pukubišt
• Chāʹ-ool "Flicker (Colaptes)" (T) = če·ul (“red bird”)
• Che-pahktʹ "Robin (Merula)" (T)
• Che-wilʹ-le "Golden ground squirrel (Callospermophilus): Same for Chipmunk (Eutamias)" (B)
• Che-wisʹ-sah "Flicker (Colaptes)" (B)
• Cheʹ-yu "Cottontail rabbit (Lepus auduboni)" (B)
• Chik-keetʹ "A bird", "A small bird" (T)
• Chi-le-bit "Small brown lizard (Uta)" (T)
• Chimʹ-chim "Bat" (B)
• Chis-pahʹ-pŏ "Horned toad (Phrynosoma)" (B)
• Cho-lŏkʹ-nah "Red-shouldered blackbird (Agelaius)" (B)
• Cho-noʹ-tsahn "Oriole (Icterus)" (B)
• Chooʹ-taw-tukʹ-las "Kingfisher (Ceryle)" (B)
• Chōʹ-we "White-footed mouse (Peromyscus) (B)
• Chooʹ-mil "White-footed mouse (Peromyscus): Big kind" = cɨmil
• Chum-me-pil "White-footed mouse (Peromyscus): Small kind" (T)
• Eʹ-chā-o "Little spotted skunk (Spilogale)" (B)
• E-sel "Antlers or Horns" (B)
• Ĕʹ-teʹ "Red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis): ?" (B)
• Eʹ-titch "Sparrow hawk (Falco sparverius)" (B)
• Hahʹ-pahl "Feather" (B)
• Hahsʹ-ke-wet "Pocket gopher (Thomomys)" (B)
• Haht-sah-me tsooʹ-le "Hide: Fresh (B)
• Hasʹ-sow-ă-sowʹ-nah "Marsh hawk (Circus hudsonius)" (B)
• Hiʹ-hi "Crested jay (Cyanocitta)" (B)
• Hi-hiʹ-e-walʹ "Crested jay (Cyanoccit)" (T)
• Hiʹ-nah "Mallard (Anas boschas)", "Ducks (all kinds)" (B)
• Hitʹ-chit "Wood rat, round-tail (Neotoma)" (B)
• Hoiʹ "Deer, mule (Odocoleus hemionus group)", "Buck" (B)
• Hoi-jun "Plume", "Topknot" (T)
• Hoi-yoʹ-le "Coot (Fulican) Mudhen" (B)
• Hŏksʹ-e "Wild Dogs: Small and of different colors; smooth & shiny; tail long. Lived in holes in high bank on north side Kern River just below where comes out of Mts." (B)
• Holʹ-poiʹ-ĕ "Scaly lizard (Sceloporus): "bigger"" (B)
• Ho-neelʹ "Red-shouldered blackbird (Agelaius)" (T)
• Hoomʹ-nool "Valley quail (Lophortyx)" (B)
• Hoo-tooʹ-lah "Great horned owl (Bubo)", "Screech owl (Megascops): ?" (B)
• Howʹ-wahlʹ, How-walʹ-lah "Wood rat, round-tail (Neotoma)" (T) = ha·wal
• How-walʹ-wal hen-nun "Rat’s nest: Wood rat house" (T)
• In-dah-mahʹ "All mammals" (T) = ʔindama· (“someone”)
• Hunʹ, Hōn "An egg" (B)
• Ishtʹ "Coyote (Canis lestes or ochropus)" (T) — c.f. Cahuilla 'isill
• ish-tinkt-ta-mah-win "Wren (Troglodytes)" (T)
• Kah-biʹ-ah (B), Kă-bā-yăh (T) "Horse"
• Kah-hootʹ-ri "Salamander" (B)
• Kaht-tahlʹ "Raccoon (Procyon)" (T) = kata·l
• Kaht-tahʹ-nit "Alligator lizard (Gerrhonotus)" (B)
• Keʹ-che "Raccoon (Procyon)" (B)
• Kenʹ-kĕ "Porcupine (Erethizon)" (B)
• Ke-wish "Meadow or water mouse (Microtus)" (T)
• Ki-enʹ-nah "Deer, mule (Odocoleus hemionus group) Doe" (B)
• Kiʹ-yu "Coyote (Canis lestes or ochropus)" (B)
• Kohlʹ-we "Lesser snow goose (Chen hyperborea)" (B)
• Koi-koiʹ-chah "Lewis woodpecker (Asyndesmus torquatus)" (B)
• Koi-yetʹ-wuk "Toad (Bufo)" (B)
• Koiʹ-yōt "Turtle" (T) = ko·yo·t
• Ko-koiʹ-itch "Red-breasted sapsucker (Sphyraphicus ruber)" (B)
• Ko-lanʹ-ke "King or milk snake (Ophibolus boyli)" (B)
• Koo-koʹ-chip "Screech owl (Megascops)" (B)
• Koo-lah-bist "Mallard (Anas boschas): (all Ducks & Geese", "Ducks", "Geese", "Western Canada goose (branta canadensis occidentalis)" (T) = kula·bišt
• Koo-wukʹ-ke-yelʹ "Barn swallow (Hirundo)" (T)
• Kootʹ-tah "Tail" (B)
• Ko-tāʹ-yah "Turkey buzzard (Cathartes)" (B)
• Ko-trŏʹ-nitch "Gopher or bull snake (Pityophis)" (B)
• Lā-o-shet "mythical animal something like Dog. Lives in water of Springs." (T) = le·uše·p (“mythical otter”)
• Lahʹ-pah-libʹ-bit "Water snake (Eutænia)" (B)
• Lahʹ-pah-pulʹ "Duck hawk (Falco anatum) or Prairie falcon (F. mexicanus)", "Cooper hawk (Accipter cooperi)" (T) = lapaʔapɨ·l
• Le-wāʹ-sip "Bighorn (Ovis)" (B)
• Lik-le-geʹ-bit "Sparro hawk (Falco sparverius)" (T)
• Lim-ik "Cooper hawk (Accipiter cooperi)" (B)
• Mah-giʹ-wahsʹ "Purple finch (Carpodacus)" (T)
• Mah-kah-seetʹ "Horned toad (Phrynosoma)" (T)
• Mah-sutʹ-too-nal "Antelope (Antilocapra)" (T) — derived from ma·šat (“bag”)
• Manʹ-nah-nakʹ-ke-wălʹ "Mole (Scapanus)" (T)
• Me-tĕ-o͞o "Plume" (B)
• Mo-hun-bisht "Great horned owl (Bubo)" (T) = muhumbišt
• Mo-koʹ-wist "Band-tail pigeon (Columba fasciata)" (T) = mokowišt
• Moʹ-pe-peetʹ "Bob-cat (Lynx californicus) (T)
• Mutʹkeʹ-wik "Brush rabbit (Lepus bachmani) (B)
• Mweʹ-em-bist "Pocket gopher (Thomomys) (T)
• Nah-hahtʹ "Otter (Lutra)" (B)
• Nah-hit "Beaver (Castor): ♂" (B)
• Nahʹ-tis "Snake" (B)
• Nat-tah "Cat" (T)
• Nawʹ-ŏ "Grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis): ♂" (B)
• Nĭ^ch-nĭ^chʹ "Kingfisher (Ceryle)" (T)
• Nŏ-ŏ "A bear (Ursus)" (B) — same word as nawʹ-ŏ?
• Mol-loiʹ = moʔolohy

• "Grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis): small black bear" (B)
• "Grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis): Brown Bear, size of black (yellow & big)" (T)

• O-e-wel "Chicken" (T)
• Ooʹ-ah-oʹ-wah-wā "Ring-tail civet (Bassariscus)" (B)
• Oo-e-humʹ-bist, Oo-e-yumʹ- "Road runner (Geococcyx)" (T) = ʔɨihyɨmbišt
• Ooʹ-e-ooʹ-e "Road runner (Geococcyx)" (B)
• Ooʹ-kah-bitch "Mink (Lutreola vison group): ? No", "Weasel (Putorius) (In brown summer pelage)" (T) = ʔu·ga·bič
• Ooʹ-koo-koo "Frog (Rana)" (B)
• Oo-le-bit, Oo-leetʹ "Humming bird" (T)
• Oo-loosʹ-koo-e "Meadowlark (Sturnella)" (B)
• Oo-nahlʹ "Black bear (Ursus americanus)" (BT) = ʔu·nal
• Oo-nŭlʹ "A bear (Ursus): (applied to all Bears)" (T) = ʔu·nal
• Oopʹ-lă-le "Dove (Zenaidura)" (B)
• Oo-sahlʹ "Meadowlark (Sturnella): His name" (T)
• O-pe-pulʹ "Redhead (Aythya american)" (T)
• Owʹ-chă "Gray fox (Urocyon)" (B)
• O-wēʹt "Dove (Zenaidura)" (T) = ʔowi·t
• Oʹ-wik "Bald eagle (Haliæetus)" (B)
• Pah-ahtʹ "Bighorn (Ovis)" (T) = pa·ʔat
• Pahdʹ-ze-lah-gahlʹ "Cliff swallow (Petrochelidon)" (T)
• Pahʹ-soo-kun "Elk (Cervus)" (T)
• Pal "Bank swallow (Clivicola)" (T)
• Pă-lăʹ-tuk "California woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi)" (B)
• Pā-mumʹ-koots "Humming bird" (B)
• Pat-tsowʹ-al "Bat" (T) = paca·wal
• Pawʹnt "Hide (dry)" (T) = po·nt
• Peʹ-lil-lah "Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis)" (T)
• Pelʹ-pil "Shrike (Lanius)" (B)
• Pijʹ-jel-leetʹ "Golden ground squirrel (Callospermophilus)" (T) = pičili·t
• Pish-shoo-gahtʹ "Gopher or bull snake (Pityogophis)" (T)
• Pitchʹ-e-gĕ-gāʹ "Mountain chickadee (Parus gambeli)" (T)
• Po-hawʹ-wit "Weasel (Putorius)" (B)
• Poʹ-he-ah "Duck hawk (Falco anatum) or Prairie falcon (F. mexicanus)", "Night hawk (Chordeiles)" (B)
• Poʹ-he-en "Marsh hawk (Circus hudsonius)" (B)
• Poʹ-hot "Gray ground squirrel (Citellus beecheyi group): (Weasel?)" (B)
• Pōʹk-kō-[pil], Po-kōʹp "Burrowing owl (Speotyto)" (T) — diminutive form of pogoh
• Poʹ-ko-wet "Burrowing owl (Speotyto)" (B) — augmentative form of pogoh
• Po-neʹ-[oo] "Big skunk (Mephitis)", "Little spotted skunk (Spilogale)" (T) = ponihw
• Poo-oosʹ "Dog" (B)
• Poo-tooʹ-eʹ-nah "Yellowbird (Astragalinus)" (B)
• Poʹ-ōstʹ "Kangaroo rat (Dipodomys or Perodipus)" (T)
• Popʹ-po-goʹ-nahl "King or milk snake" (Ophibolus boyli)" (T)
• Powʹ-lah-guntʹ "Western Canada goose (Branta canadensis occidentalis)", Powʹ-o-lŭ-guntʹ "Swan (Olor buccinator)" (T)
• Powʹ-luk "Poorwill (Phalænoptilus)" (B)
• Pow-suk "Poorwill (Phalænoptilus)" (T)
• Pumʹt "An egg" (T) = pompt
• Pung-gool "Dog" (T)
• Sahlʹ "Dung" (T) = ša·l
• Sahngʹ-ah-pisht "Marsh hawk (Circus hudsonius) (T)
• Sā-kah-pisht "Screech owl (Megascops)" (T) = šeʔegapišt (“barn owl”)
• Sakʹ-chuk "Cooper hawk (Accipter cooperi)" (B)
• Săwʹ-choiʹ-ye "Bluebird (Sialia)" (B)
• Se-toʹ-pil-lah "Meadowlark (Sturnella): His talk" (T) = či·do·bilah (“meadowlark”)
• Shă-mand "Rattlesnake (Crotalus)" (T)
• Shoo-ēʹt "Black-tail jack rabbit (Lepus texianus group)" (T) = šu·ʔit
• Sik-kul "Scaly lizard (Scleporus): blackish..." (T)
• Si-le-vit "Scaly lizard (Scleporus)" (T)
• Simʹ-mont "Rattlesnake (Crotalus)" (B)
• Si-yelʹ "Coot (Fulica) Mudhen" (T) = ša·yal
• Sŏ^ch "Big skunk (Mephitis)" (B)
• Soiʹ-soo-e "Yellow-breasted chat (Icteria virens) (B)
• Soiʹ-yōl "Antelope (Antilocapra) (B)
• Soʹ-ke-yu "Wing" (B)
• Sōn, Sahn "Animal’s burrow" (T)
• Soʹ-we "Band-tail pigeon (Columba fasciata)" (B)
• Sowʹ-kah "Elk (Cervus)" (B)
• Soo-loonʹ "Hoofs", "Claws" (T) = šulunt
• Sŭ-loostʹ "Downy woodpecker (Dryobates pubescens) (T) = culust
• Tah-biʹ-e-lā "Antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus) (T) — same word as Tă-piʹ-el
• Tah-hah-ēʹl "Deer, mule (Odocoileus hemionus group) (T) — mishearing of tohi·l?
• Tah-pil-lahʹ-lah "Shrike (Lanius) (T)
• Tah-punt "Cottontail rabbit (Lepus auduboni)" (T) — tahpunt
• Tak-kahʹ "Valley quail (Lophortyx)" (T) = taka·h
• Tă-lah-gahkwtʹ "California woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus bairdi)" (T)
• Tamʹ-mah-miʹ "Night hawk (Chordeiles)" (T)
• Tanʹ-nah-pukʹ-kēk "Barn swallow (Hirundo)" (B)
• Tă-piʹ-el "Chipmunk (Eutamias)" (T)
• Tāʹ-pik "Beaver (Castor)" (B)
• Tapʹ-peech-lelʹ-lah "Kingbird (Tyrannus verticalis)" (B)
• Taw-gŏn "Bill" (T)
• Taw-pulʹ "Black-tail jack rabbit (Lepus texianus group)" (B)
• Te-eʹ-te-te "Killdeer (Oxyechus vocifera)" (B)
• Telʹ-se "Brown towhee (Pipilo crissalis)" (B)
• Te-weekʹ "Killder (Oxyechus vocifera)" (T)
• Tish-shalʹ "Towhee (Pipilo maculatus)" (T)
• Tisʹ-kah-kah "Tufted tit (Bæolophus)" (B)
• Ti-tiʹ-nah "Hairy woodpecker (Dryobates villosus)" (B)
• Tiʹ-yoop-wetʹ "Purple finch (Carpodacus)" (B)
• To^ch-ēʹl "Deer, mule (Odocoileus hemionus group)" (T) = tohi·l
• To-kishʹ "Brush rabbit (Lepus bachmani)" (T)
• Tooʹ-goo-kwot "Mountain lion (Felis hippolestes)" (T) = tu·gu·kwɨt
• Too-hot, Too-hahtʹ "Snake (any)", "Water snake (Eutænia)" (T)
• Tookʹt "Mountain quail (Oreortyx)" (T) = tu·kt
• Tooʹ-me-on "Junco (Junco): See also Sayornis" (B)
• Tooʹnul "Bob-cat (Lynx californicus)" (B)
• Trahʹ-tah "Turtle" (B)
• Tranʹ-neu "Badger (Taxidea)" (B)
• Triʹ-tri "California jay (Aphelocoma)" (B)
• Troʹ-kil "Golden eagle (Aquila)" (B)
• Trooʹ-me-yun "Say phœbe (Sayornis saya): "Widow", prob. Junco" (B)
• Trorʹ-nŏ "Mountain quail (Oreortyx)" (B)
• Tsahkʹ "Brewer blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)" (B)
• Tsahʹ-kah-kiʹ-wahl "Oriole (Icterus)" (T)
• Tsahlʹ "Mockingbird (Mimus)" (T)
• Tsah-wahlʹ "Groundhog (Arctomys flaviventer)" (T)
• Tsak-keʹ-pul "Brewer blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus)" (T) = caki·bɨ·l
• Tsăʹ-pis "A nest" (B)
• Tsă-wahʹ-nenʹ[t] "Gray ground squirrel (Citellus beecheyi group)" (T) = cawanɨnt
• Tsom-ōl "Hair" (T) = como·l
• Tsonʹ-sŏ^ch "Magpie (Pica)" (B)
• Tsooʹ^ch "Magpie headdress: ♂" (B)
• Ts^rahʹ-ke-ah sooʹ-le "Hide: Dry hide" (B)
• Tookʹ-loo-loo "Pigmy owl (Glaucidium) (T) = tukluluh (“screech owl”)
• Tukʹ-tah-goos "Fishhawk (Pandion)" (T)
• Tum-mŏnʹ "Hair: His hair" (T) — probably an error for *Tsum-mŏnʹ, 3p possessed form corresponding to Tsom-ōl
• Tung-tung-koo-chēn, Tinʹ-din koo-jeʹ "Canyone wren (Catherpes)" (T)
• Tut-ratʹ-tit "Small brown lizard (Uta)" (B)
• Wā-ă-tsoi "A bird" (B)
• Wah-al "Red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis) (T) = wa·ʔal (“hawk”)
• Wah-ahlʹ, Ahʹ-ahl^ch "Pinyon jaw (Cyanocephalus) (T)
• Wahʹ-dum "Bushtit (Psaltriparus)" (T)
• Wah-kahʹ-ishtʹ "Frog (Rana)" (T)
• Wahʹ-kut "Great blue heron (Ardea herodias)" (B)
• Wahʹ-lōk-wahʹ-lōk ke-welʹ "Sand-hill crane (Grus mexicanus)" (T)
• Wahʹ-sahl "Fishhawk (Pandion)", "Grebe or hell-diver (Colymbus or Podilymbus)" (T)
• Wah-woʹ-kan-nal "Toad (Bufo)" (T) — c.f. Wōk-nahl
• We-hāʹ-chit "Mountain lion (Felis hippolestes)" (B)
• Wēʹts (B), Weetsʹ (T) "California condor (Gymnogyps)"
• Weʹ-we-punʹ-pun "Robin (Merula): snow" (B)
• Weʹ-yu "Black-headed grosbeak (Zamelodia)" (B)
• Wis-seenʹ "Tail" (T)
• Wis-sŭ-kum-bis "California condor (Gymnogyps)" (T)
• Wit-sip Hoi "Deer, mule (Odocoileus hemionus group) Fawn: ♂" (B)
• Wo-jeʹ-jah "White-crown sparrow (Zonotrichia leucophrys)" (T)
• Wōk-nahlʹ "Toad (Bufo)" (T)
• Wŭ-geenʹ "Tracks" (T) = wɨgi·l (in 3p possessed form)
• Yek-kloʹ-bal, Ikʹ-lo-bŭl "Gray fox (Urocyon)" (T) = ʔiklo·bal
• Yelʹ-lo-keekʹ "Bluebird (Sialia)" (T)
• Yiʹ-yek "Shrew (Sorex [...])" (B)
• Yol-lupʹ-pwun "Turkey buzzard (Cathartes): naked head" (T)
• Yow-litʹ "Big wolf (Canis [...])" (B)
• Yunʹ-haw "Gray tree squirrel (Sciurus fossor) (B)