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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
[edit]- B = Pahnʹ-kă-lăʹ-che (Bankalachi) of Deer Creek
- T = Tubotelobela (Tübatulabal) of Kern Valley
Wordlist
[edit]- 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) = ʔakapištAhʹ-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·šawɨtAhʹ-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) = pukubištChāʹ-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) = muhumbištMo-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)
- Nĭch-nĭchʹ "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·nalOo-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·walPawʹnt"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- Sŏch "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) = šuluntSŭ-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) — tahpuntTak-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)
Toch-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) = cawanɨntTsom-ōl"Hair" (T) = como·l- Tsonʹ-sŏch "Magpie (Pica)" (B)
- Tsooʹch "Magpie headdress: ♂" (B)
- Tsrahʹ-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-ahlch "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)