Saanich Verb Database

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čaq̓ʷ ‘sweat’ čaw ‘use, get used’ čax̣ʷ ‘melt, get melted’ čečə ‘friend, relative’ č̓əč̓əy̓əƛ̓ ‘short’ čəl ‘go first’ č̓əl ‘wrong, mixed up, mix up’ čəlew ‘after, past, last’ čələw̓ ‘turn around, turn over, turn inside out’ čən ‘bury, plant, get buried, get planted, burying, planting’ č̓en̓ ‘correct, straighten, get corrected, straightened’ č̓ənəɬ ‘between, squeeze between’ č̓eŋ̓ ‘be home’ čeq ‘fall down, fall over, get knocked over’ čəq ‘big’ č̓əq̓ ‘get amazed’ čəq̓əq̓ən ‘loud’ čəqʷ ‘burn, get burned, make fire’ č̓ət̓ᶿ, t̓ᶿət̓ᶿ ‘hug, be hugged’ č̓ət̓ᶿək̓ʷ, t̓ᶿəč̓ək̓ʷ ‘get startled, frightened’ čewt ‘admire’ čey ‘work, working’ čiəq ‘snow falling, snowing’ č̓ii ‘thank, be thanked, thanking’ č̓inəw ‘getting irritated’ č̓ip̓ ‘squeeze, press, squeezing, pressing, get squeezed, get pressed’ č̓is ‘grow’ čiw ‘brag, bragging’ čix̣ʷ ‘fall apart, break, get broken’ č̓kʷəx̣ ‘fry, get fried’ čkʷix̣ ‘throb, throbbing’ čɬət ‘thick’ čte ‘ask, asking, asked’ č̓təŋ ‘crawl, crawling’ hay ‘finish, quit, alone, only’ hek̓ʷ ‘remember’ həkʷte ‘blow horn, have horn blown, blowed’ həli ‘come to life, be alive, let live’ hes ‘sneeze’ het̓ᶿ ‘breathe, breath’ həw ‘change (?)’ hewə ‘go away’ hil ‘fall from height, get knocked off’ hiləkʷ ‘happy’ hiθ ‘long time’ kafi ‘coffee’ k̓ʷ ‘get finished, finish’ kʷanəŋət ‘run, running’ kʷati ‘crazy’ kʷeč ‘yell, shout, call’ kʷel̓ ‘hide, get hidden’ kʷəl ‘fly’ kʷəl̓ ‘spill, tip over, pour, get spilled, get poured, get tipped over, get tipped out’ kʷən ‘take, grab, get taken, find, get, hold, grasp, have’ k̓ʷən ‘see, look, watch’ kʷəneŋ ‘help, helping, be helped’ kʷəq̓ ‘open, unlock, get opened, get unlocked’ kʷəs ‘send, get sent, sending’ k̓ʷes ‘warm, hot’ k̓ʷəs ‘count, get counted’ kʷəskʷaw ‘fall forward’ k̓ʷət̓ᶿ ‘crooked, twisted, make crooked, twist’ k̓ʷəwyəkʷ ‘fish (verb), go fishing’ kʷex̣ ‘move, moving’ kʷəx̣ ‘get chased’ kʷəxʷ ‘knock, knocking’ k̓ʷey ‘hungry’ k̓ʷəyem ‘stop doing something’ kʷeʔ ‘let go’ kʷeθ ‘pry, get pried, prying’ kʷil ‘appear, shine, come out, show up, showed’ kʷim ‘red’ kʷin ‘fight’ kʷiθ ‘turn around’ kʷukʷ ‘cook’ ɬal ‘get left’ ƛ̓am ‘enough, alright, okay’ ɬčikʷəs ‘tired’ ƛ̓əč ‘deep, under, below’ ɬeč ‘dark’ ləkli ‘key, lock, latch’ ƛ̓ək̓ʷ ‘go out (of light, fire), get extinguished’ ɬekʷ ‘hurry, rush’ ɬel ‘take out, get taken out’ ƛ̓eləs ‘back up’ ƛ̓əleʔ ‘look for, seek, get sought, search for’ ɬəl̓t ‘splash, splashing’ ləm ‘kick’ ɬəm̓ət̓ᶿ ‘pick berries, berry-pick, picking berries’ ɬəməxʷ ‘rain’ len̓ ‘listen, hear’ ɬənəq ‘score a goal, shoot on goal’ ɬənəxʷsət ‘score a goal’ ɬəŋ ‘take off, get taken off’ ƛ̓əp̓ ‘feel with hands’ ƛ̓eqt ‘long’ ƛ̓əq̓ʷiqəŋ ‘shiny’ lət̓ᶿ ‘fill, get full’ ɬew̓ ‘escape, get better, heal’ ɬəw̓is ‘take off, get taken off’ ƛ̓əxʷ ‘win, winning, won, beat someone, lose, losing, lost, be made to lose’ ƛ̓əx̣ʷ ‘hard’ ɬəy̓əqʷ ‘fall apart’ leʔ ‘do, fix, cause, make, get done, fixed, made’ ƛ̓ič̓ ‘sneak, stalk, sneaking, stalking, getting stalked, go after, going after’ ɬik̓ʷ ‘trip, hook’ lil̓ ‘far, far away, go far’ lil̓əq ‘easy’ liqʷ ‘loosen, get loose’ ɬit̓ᶿ ‘cut’ ƛ̓iʔ ‘valuable, valued, important, difficult, want, need’ ƛ̓pəx̣ ‘scatter’ ɬqət ‘wide’ ɬtaʔq̓ʷ ‘snore, snoring’ ƛ̓xʷi ‘get covered, get packed up, pack up, cover’ məkʷ ‘bend, get bent, doubled over’ məkʷ ‘kiss, get kissed’ mək̓ʷ ‘wait, be awaited’ mekʷəɬ ‘injure, get injured’ mələč̓ ‘roll over, roll out, get rolled’ məl̓əq ‘forget’ melməl ‘make mistake, do by accident’ məlyi ‘married’ məmim̓ən ‘small, little’ məq̓ ‘full of food’ məq̓ʷθən ‘squash, squish, get squashed/squished, getting squashed/squished’ mət̓ ‘bend, get bent’ mət̓ᶿen̓əŋ ‘act proud, acting proud, being a snob’ miləč̓ ‘mix, get mixed’ neč̓ ‘different, mixed up, don’t match, not matching’ nəč ‘laugh, smile’ nəqʷ ‘fall asleep, sleeping’ nət̓ᶿə ‘one’ nəw̓ ‘go in’ nəw̓neč ‘pay, get paid (rent)’ ŋaʔ ‘get eaten, eat’ ŋekʷ ‘chew, get chewed, chewing’ ŋəq̓ ‘swallow, get swallowed’ p̓aq̓ʷəŋ ‘foam’ p̓əkʷ ‘rise to surface’ p̓əɬ ‘hatch, get hatched, sober up’ pəq̓ ‘white’ pəx̣ ‘open (as in blooms)’ pəθ ‘get spread’ pit ‘recognize, recognise, get recognized, recognizing, recognising’ piyatəɬ ‘hunt ducks, hunting ducks, duckhunt’ piθ ‘get pumped (of gun)’ pqʷey̓ ‘rotten, go rotten, decompose (of wood, tree)’ pxʷa ‘blow, blowing, blown’ q̓ay ‘get sick, ill’ qəl ‘spoil, spoiled, look away, mean’ q̓el̓ ‘believe, believing’ q̓əl ‘dream’ q̓əƛ̓ ‘heal’ q̓ələq̓ ‘wrap, get wrapped, wrapping, wind up, get wound, winding’ qəlet ‘again, more, repeat’ q̓ələw ‘get crossed, cross, crossing (legs)’ q̓əɬsaŋ ‘wish for (food), find mouthwatering’ q̓əm̓ ‘break, breaking, get broken, getting broken’ q̓əməl ‘rain and flood’ q̓əŋ ‘immerse in water, get immersed, drown, be drowned’ q̓əp ‘come together, gather’ q̓əp̓ ‘land (on water), be capsized’ qəs ‘go in water, fall in water’ qew ‘rest’ qəw ‘put in oven, bake, baking, heat up, heating up’ q̓ew ‘pay, get paid’ qəx̣ ‘hide, hidden’ qiəx̣qin ‘lie (i.e. tell a lie)’ qiləs ‘boring’ q̓ix̣ ‘black’ q̓k̓ʷi ‘bite, get bitten (e.g., by mosquito)’ q̓təx̣ ‘rattle, be rattled, rattling, ring, ringing’ q̓ʷay ‘die, be killed, kill’ qʷaʔ ‘water, drink’ q̓ʷaʔ ‘add, get added, get included, put in’ q̓ʷeč̓ət̓ ‘burp’ qʷel ‘talk, speak’ q̓ʷəl ‘bake, roast, barbeque, cook, get baked, barbecued, roasted, cooked’ qʷəl̓əs ‘boil, get boiled’ q̓ʷələt̓ᶿ ‘peel, get peeled, peeling (peels easily, e.g., orange)’ qʷəqʷəl̓ ‘sun, shine’ qʷɬey̓ ‘log, wood’ qx̣i ‘slip’ sak̓ʷ ‘bathe’ saʔ ‘lift, get lifted, be lifted, raised, raise’ sčəw̓et ‘smart, skilled’ sč̓isət ‘go into the bush’ se ‘cause someone to do something, make someone do something, get made to do something’ sečəŋ ‘be in pain, hurt, hurting, dry’ sekʷ ‘put down’ šəl ‘climb, get taken up, get walked up, get carried up’ seləs ‘hand, lower arm’ seləxʷ ‘old’ səməxʷ ‘shut up’ səməy, səmi ‘blanket’ səq ‘go out, get out, go outside, be taken outside’ səq̓ ‘tear, get torn’ šəq ‘finish, get finished’ sesəy̓ ‘get scared’ šət ‘walk’ səweʔ ‘go along, go with’ səx̣it ‘breathe hard because you’re angry/mad’ səyəq ‘search, look through’ seʔxʷəŋ ‘lazy’ šie ‘deny’ šip ‘whittle, peel, get peeled’ šit ‘desire, wish for, admire, find mouthwatering’ siʔem ‘respected, rich’ šk̓ʷam ‘swim’ skʷesət ‘lie down’ sk̓ʷey ‘cannot, be impossible, not like’ skʷeʔ ‘one’s own, belonging to one’ skʷišəm ‘really hard (as in rain)’ skʷul ‘school’ sɬək̓ʷeʔɬ ‘worry, worries, worrying’ sŋeʔqə ‘snow on ground’ štəkʷe ‘be relied on, rely’ stəq̓ ‘disturb, move, get disturbed, get moved’ t̓ak̓ʷ ‘go home’ tal ‘go out in water’ tal̓ ‘learn, find out, come to know, understand’ taɬ ‘read, reading’ taq̓ʷ ‘cough’ t̓ay̓əm̓ ‘put on, putting on’ tečəl ‘arrive’ t̓eč̓əq̓ ‘angry’ təčix̣ʷ ‘busy’ təkʷ ‘break, get broken’ tel ‘copy’ t̓əl̓q̓as ‘wave, waving, waved at’ t̓əl̓t̓əl̓els ‘go numb’ t̓əm̓ ‘hit with an object’ t̓ən̓ ‘pile up, get piled up’ t̓epəl ‘play cards, playing cards’ təq ‘close, get closed’ təqʷ ‘tighten, get tight’ təq̓ʷ ‘bump, hit head on, get bumped’ təs ‘reach, get near, get close’ tew̓ ‘light’ t̓əx̣ ‘wrong, do something wrong’ tey ‘canoe race, go upstream’ t̓eʔ ‘try, train, practice’ t̓iləm ‘sing’ timəθət ‘try hard’ tintən ‘ring’ t̓ᶿaɬəŋ ‘cold, cool (of weather)’ t̓ᶿaməŋ ‘wet’ t̓ᶿaʔq̓ʷəŋ ‘rotten’ t̓ᶿənaŋə ‘cold, cool (of food/drink)’ t̓ᶿep ‘get disturbed, disturb, disturbing’ t̓ᶿəp̓ ‘close’ t̓ᶿəq̓ ‘leak’ t̓ᶿəqʷ ‘put down, turn down, lessen, get turned down’ t̓ᶿew̓ ‘wash, clean, get washed, get cleaned’ t̓ᶿeʔ ‘get put up, go on top’ t̓ᶿiŋ ‘get near, approach’ tust ‘toast’ txʷən ‘towards, in the direction of’ wasels ‘bark (of dog)’ weqəs ‘yawn’ x̣eč ‘dry, drying, get dried’ x̣əč ‘come to understand, know, learn, think, figure out’ x̣eƛ̓ ‘windy’ x̣əl̓ ‘write, get written’ x̣əɬ ‘get hurt, be in pain, get sick, ill’ x̣ələčt ‘turn over’ x̣əlx̣ew̓e ‘pit-lamp’ x̣əm ‘heavy, big’ x̣əneʔ ‘get done, do’ x̣əpq̓ʷ ‘gnawing pain, sore’ x̣es ‘bad’ x̣əwəs ‘new’ x̣əy ‘hesitate’ x̣əyƛ̓ ‘cool, cold’ x̣iʔsəl̓ ‘fierce, swift (water), scary’ x̣iʔx̣aʔ ‘get embarrassed, ashamed’ x̣ɬem ‘watch’ x̣ti ‘do, make, prepare, get prepared’ x̣ʷa ‘cry’ xʷč̓e ‘get slaughtered, die out’ xʷčičtəs ‘sensible’ xʷəƛ̓ ‘towards, in the direction of’ xʷəl̓əq̓ʷ ‘drift, drifting’ x̣ʷən ‘similar to, like, like this’ xʷənak̓ʷ ‘out of breath, breathing pretty hard’ x̣ʷənəkʷen ‘think/thought something was the case’ xʷet̓ᶿsən ‘stop (of snow or rain)’ xʷəy ‘wake up, waken, awake’ x̣ʷiem ‘tell stories’ xʷil ‘get down, descend’ x̣ʷil̓ ‘lose, get lost’ xʷilŋəxʷ ‘aboriginal, First Nations, Indian, native’ xʷis ‘shake, get shaken’ xʷit ‘jump’ x̣θəm ‘box, boxed’ yas ‘play’ yeʔ ‘go, be going to, gonna’ yəθas ‘tell, get told, say’ ʔaaɬ / ʔaləɬ ‘go on board, be aboard’ ʔax̣ʷ ‘go to’ ʔaʔčəŋ ‘slow’ ʔeč̓ ‘wipe, get wiped’ ʔəčiʔ ‘get brought, bring, have’ ʔəkʷa ‘show, be shown, showing, point out, have something pointed out’ ʔəleʔ ‘put away’ ʔəlq ‘bring’ ʔəmət ‘sit down, get up, be at home’ ʔen ‘let someone have something, obey’ ʔənəxʷ ‘stop, stopping’ ʔənʔe ‘come’ ʔəŋaʔ ‘give, get given’ ʔəpiəw̓st ‘pet, caress’ ʔəsəp̓ ‘finish, stop’ ʔəwə ‘no, negative particle’ ʔəwək̓ʷ ‘get finished, finish’ ʔex̣ ‘do, say’ ʔəx̣ʷi ‘sweep, get swept’ ʔəy̓ ‘good, kind, generous, clear, friendly’ ʔəy̓əm ‘be calm’ ʔeʔəy ‘go on, go ahead and do something’ ʔeθkʷəɬ ‘go off shore’ ʔi(ʔ)či(s), xʷu(ʔ)či(s) ‘teach, be taught’ ʔiɬən ‘eat’ ʔinət ‘say something/anything, saying something/anything, speak, speaking’ ʔiŋ ‘bring, get brought’ ʔist ‘paddle’ ʔitət ‘go to sleep, sleeping, sleepy’ ʔiʔčis ‘dip, get dipped’ θaŋ ‘go up’ θaʔqʷəŋ ‘sweet’ θək̓ʷ ‘stretch, get stretched, straighten, get straightened’ θəx̣ ‘push, get pushed’ θəʔit ‘be true, genuine, really mean something’ θiləč ‘find’ θiɬəŋ ‘stand up’ θimaʔ ‘freeze, get frozen’ θɬələwiɬ ‘put on top of something, go on top of something’ θɬəqʷ ‘pierce, bore a hole, go through a channel/crowd’ θɬəqʷ ‘come out, come through’