ENGLISH - QUERES  LANGUAGE
Keresan Vocabulary / Dictionary

   

  abalone ( shell )
above, on top
Acoma pueblo
Acoma people
adobe
adobe bricks
adult
afternoon
again
air, breath
albino, blond                                   
Albuquerque
all
alleyway
along
Ancestors
and                  
anglo                              
animal (dom.)
animal ( game )
ankle
another                
ant (black)                      
ant (red)                        
antelope                         
Anzac
Apache                             
apple                              
apricot                            
April                                
apron
arm
ashes
assistance, help                              
August                            
aunt                                 
Autumn
away, off
axe
baby
back                           
bad  (not good)
badger
bag             
banana
bank
basket
bat ( winged )
beads
beams                          
beans                             
bear                                
bear-cub
beard
beautiful                          
beaver                            
bee                                  
beef 
bell
bells (small)
below                                
belt
beside                                  
big
bighorn sheep                                 
bird
bitter                                
black
blood
blue-gray                               
blue, green                     
bluebird                          
bluejay                            
bobcat
body
bone
both
bow
bowl                            
box
boy
bracelet
brains                          
bread (fried)                   
bread ( flat )
bread ( baked )
breasts
breath
broken                             
brother (fem.'s)               
brother (male's)             
brown
buckskin                              
buffalo
building
bullsnake                             
bumblebee
but                     
butterfly                           
buzzard
cactus (cane cholla)
cactus (prickly pear)
canyon
car                           
carrot                              
cat                                   
caterpillar
cave
cedar                   
celery (wild)                   
centipede
Chaco
chair
chartreuse
cheese                       
cherry
chest                             
chicken                          
chile stew                      
chile
chipmunk                               
Christmas
church
cigarette
clan ( people )
claw
cliff
cloud
cloud (
fog  )
cloudy
club ( bat ) 
cob ( corn )                     
coffee                               
cold
color
colt
complete
Conchiti person                                
corn (on cob)                 
corn (red)                       
corn (yellow)                  
corn
cornbread
corn ear (fresh)
corn (green)
cornmeal drink
cord-seed
corn silk
cotton
cottonwood ( tree )              
councilmen                    
cow
cowboy                                
coyote
crackers
crane
crazy                     
cricket
crooked                            
crow
crucifix                               
Cubero
dawn
day
day after tomorrow
day before yesterday
December                     
deer
deer hide
dipper
dirt ( sandy )
disabled                               
dog                                
donkey
door
dough
dove                           
down                              
dress                              
dry                                  
duck                               
dusk
dusty                               
eagle
ear                             
earring                           
East                               
egg                                
eight                              
eighteen                       
eleven
elk
embers                           
Enchanted Mesa         
enough                           
evening
everyone
everything
eyes
face                         
Fall
far
fast
fast ( w/o food )                                
father
feather
feathers                            
February
field                       
fifteen
fir, or spruce
fire
fireplace
firewood
first                            
fish                                
five                                
flea                               
flicker
flour
flower                             
fly                                  
food
foot
forest
formerly                         
four                                 
fourteen                        
fox                                 
Friday
friend
frog
from
frost
full
garden
girl
glasses ( eye- )                              
gloves
glowing                          
goats                            
God ( Dios > )
gold                           
good
gourd
government                             
Governor                      
grandmother (ml.'s)     
grandmother (fem.'s)   
granfather (fem.'s)       
granfather (ml.'s)          
Grants                           
grape
grass ( & wheat )                           
grasshopper                
gray
grease                               
green
grind stone
guts
hail
hair
half
hammer
hand
hard (rib)                           
harvest                          
hat
hawk (sparrow)                                
hawk (red-tail)
head              
headband
healthy
heart
heaven                     
heavy
heel                            
hello
her ( possesive )
here
his  ( possesive )
honey
Hopi person
horn
horned toad                            
horse
horse ( his-"owned / pet" )
hot
house
how                             
hummingbird                
hundred
I, we
ice
icicle ( also Ice Caves )
in / on / with
inside
instead                     
interpreter                    
jackrabbit
jaguar                     
January
jerky
jug                         
July                                  
June
juniper
kiva
knife
knot                              
Laguna
Laguna people                          
lamb
land
language, talk
last
laundry
leaf
leg
life
light
lightning                              
lightweight
little one                    
lizard                             
loco
log
long
long ago                               
louse
love
lungs
man
manure
many                             
March                            
May  ( month )
may                               
McCartys
meadowlark                        
meat
medicine                              
melon
mesa
mesquite bean
metate
Mexicans
mica
middle                            
mid-morning                
milk                               
mocassins                     
mockingbird                
Monday                        
month                           
moon                            
morning
morning ( early )                          
mosquito
moss                        
moth                              
mother
mountain                          
mountain lion
mountain lion cub
mountainous                 
mouse
mouth                          
Mt. Taylor
much
mud
my  ( prefix )
nail
naked                 
name
Navajos
navel                            
necklace                      
new
next
nice                               
night                              
nine                               
nineteen                       
no                                 
noon                               
North
Northeast
northern
nose
not                            
November
now
nuts                   
oak                               
October                        
officers                         
okay                              
old
on / in / with                                
one                                
onion
or                             
orange
outside
owl
oxen
paint for pottery                                
pancake                       
pants                              
parrot
path, trail, road                           
peach                           
pear
peas
pebble
pen ( also, "to be writing" )
people                              
pies                              
pig
pine, ponderosa                                
pink                              
pinyon ( nuts )
pinyon (pine tree )
pipe
plains
plant
plate
plaza                         
plum
pollen                             
porcupine
pot ( for cooking )                    
potato
potshards
pottery                          
prairie dog                  
pre-dawn
prepared                     
priest                           
pumpkin                      
purple                          
quail
quick                            
quiet
quilt                            
rabbit                          
raccoon
rain, raining
rainbow                     
rainwater
raw                    
rawhide                      
red
reeds
rib                              
ribbon
rich                    
ring
river
road                                
roadrunner                 
robin
room
root
rope
rotten                           
rough                          
round
saddle                          
salad
salamander
saliva
salt
salty                            
San Fidel
sand ( earthy )
sand ( very fine )
sash
Santa Ana pueblo
Santa Domingo person                     
Saturday                    
scarf                           
secretary
seeds
seeds (pits )                    
September                
seven                          
seventeen
shadow
shampoo
sharp                  
shawl                          
sheep                         
shoes
shoulder
shrew
side                         
sister (fem's)              
sister (male's)            
six                               
sixteen
skin                          
sky
slow                              
small
smoke
smoke hole                           
smooth                       
snake
snare
snow
snowy
soap                    
socks
soft
someone
somewhere
song
soot                          
soup                            
South                          
Spaniard, Mexican                       
spanish                       
sparrowhawk
spider                         
spinach                      
spoon                         
Spring
spruce, or fir                        
square                        
squash                       
squirrel
star                       
stew
stick                            
stinkbug
stone
stove
straight
straw
student
students
sumac                       
Summer  ( also "year" )
summertime                   
sun                              
Sunday
sunflower
sunny                       
sunrise                       
sunset
sure                         
swallow
sweet
tail
talk, talkative                   
tamale
tasty                          
tea
teal                              
ten
tent                              
Thank you
then
there
thick
thing                    
thirteen
this                       
three
through, along                           
Thursday
toad
tobacco
today
together                    
tomato
tomorrow
tongue
tooth
torn                        
tortilla
toward
trail
tree
Tuesday                     
turkey
turquoise
turtle                          
twelve                           
twenty one                   
twenty
twice                         
twilight
twin                        
two
ugly
under                             
up
wall
walnut
washed out                               
wasp                          
water                          
watermelon                
Wednesday               
West                           
wet                              
what                            
wheat pudding
wheel
when           
where
which, what
whip
whisper                          
white
who                           
why
wide 
willow
willy
window                            
Winter
with
with / in / on                         
wolf
woman                             
woodpecker
word            
worm
wren                        
year                          
yellow                         
yes
yesterday
yet
you
yucca
Zia pueblo
Zuni person, people
Zuni pueblo                             

w'aabin'i
dini
Aak'u
Aak'um'e
y'aasba'tawe
tsi'yautran'i
nawaa'ai
sənatsidiya-siyuuk'u
dzina, heyawaashu, si
tsa'atsi
kasheena                     
Arawageeki
sai, kaashi
chanaay'a
yuuw'i
kut'iyamənishi
ee 
merigaana 
adyaashi
k'uyaiti
nu'utiini
ishka 
mee'e 
sii'i 
kəətsi 
Diyabənishuk'u
Chishe 
manisaani 
arawagu 
Sh'amə Daaw'aatra 
uuduudyani
y'uum'iini
m'iish'ai
umatsi 
Sawarurensu Daaw'aatra 
n'aaya
Hayaats'i
yuuk'u
uupəkaawan'i
uwaka
sa, si 
dzaadzi dawaa
dyuupi
paani
husrk'ani
wanku
kuyast'i, ut'aan'i
pik'ik'i
w'iishtyəgən'i
pitraam'idzeeshi 
ganami 
kuhaya
kuhaya waasht'i
haamushani
k'aunam'ee 
guu'u 
ts'iishdiini 
waakashi israani
usrk'aitsi
sdyəri'ina
n'ədziyakuw'a
huutishdyumi
yuuw'i 
tsichə
srkaasku 
bishbiina
tseebin'a 
mishtyətsi
m'aat'i
maits'ə 
k'uisrka 
sruisiya 
shduusra 
dyaatyu
tsin'i
haaskani
srk'aiwa
husdyaak'a
waist'aan'i
kahuuna
məəti
uyuusemi
y'aasbuutraani 
ts'iuy'at'isrkum'eni 
madzini 
baha
ha'asi'ini
tsaatsi
kayutsi 
jiijii 
dyumə 
k'uishtiti
piitsi 
mushaitra
ichən'i, katrə
srka'atyu 
sh'um'ə
edyu 
buur'aika 
m'aashawi
iban'i
iitya
chanaay'a
tərərəga 
kaashaatsi 
muusa 
ts'uuw'ira
paaniidze'esra
k'ani 
sh'amə 
i'iityawa
W'aasrba shak'a
anamati
kasradiim'a
geesu 
apu
wits'ini 
guw'aaku 
chəəri waisht'i 
chəəri
k'ayama 
Nachəweena
miisa k'aiy'a
w'iisp'ə
hanutra
ha'aw'iich'ani
kaduwina
henat'i
heyaashi
dziina
traitsi
y'uuskum'a
kawe 
gaishtaaya
k'uidze
kawaayu waasht'i
heem'e
k'uudi'im'e 
kinati 
y'aak'a kəəganishi
y'aak'a k'uuchinishi
y'aak'a
kapaana
y'auni
hinati
hayani
y'aachini
y'aak'ashi
sibuuk'a
hiitraa'ai 
pinsibaarit'itra 
waakashi
wageera 
tsushki
sh'in'ash'in'a
shuuta
r'uuku 
shtitishtiga
sr'uuw'i, sr'uw'itsi 
sh'uta
sruguch'ats'i 
Kuweeru
neishbitraatya-gu
s'echum'a
naha'ayashi
naha'aya 
Nachəweena Daaw'aatra
dyani
piitsi
m'ak'a
ya'ai
y'aayu 
diya 
huuru
ts'iyaam'a
y'aasba
huu'uuk'a 
n'əgami, n'ə 
wagəni 
ts'iipani 
w'aay'uusra 
ts'aamuugani
wa'asruu 
dyaami
w'i'ipeeni 
ukuuyami 
Haanami 
n'aaw'iik'a 
kuk'umishi 
k'atsi kuk'umishi dzidra 
k'atsi isrka dzidra
dyəsra
haak'ani
Kadziima 
heem'e
sh'apəgani
haupa
sai
huwana'ani
huwaw'ini 
Hayaats'i
tee'e
sh'atrə
huutyashini 
n'aishdiya
w'asən'i, haapi
huuseni
R'uuku Daaw'aatra
dzaisra
k'atsi taam'a dzidra
haak'aka
tsiba'ashi
uubaayaan'i
guutsi
tseya
srk'aashe 
taam'a 
dam'u 
ch'uudiga
in'awi
agətrətsi 
ts'aapi 
ubewi, nats'i
hasdi'ini
dzityapiima
ham'a
dyaana 
k'atsi dyaana dzidra 
maashtya 
Yeenisi
auk'iinishi
shdauraku
w'ee
sraak'aaku
giit'a
dza'isra
magə
u'wanaatran'i 
amashdibənaim'i
kə'ə 
garawahsi 
Yuusi
uuradza 
dawaa
dyaawi
huuchani 
Daabuupu 
baabaa 
dya'au 
baabaa 
nana 
Waibəhaititi 
madaiku
asran'i 
sh'ati 
tsiisrk'a
israt'i 
kasradim'aadze
uyaasbaan'i
y'a'awaani
y'aise, haam'ani
hatrani
sənaam'a
uuyə'ətsi
ham'asdi'ini
yagətr'əni 
uw'aititaan'i 
ushdyats'ətsi
ch'iidiga 
shbiy'ai
nasgaaini 
ut'iduumitsi
nəwəwə
w'in'uska
k'aunam'aatsi 
gayuutaaya
haadak'ani 
guw'aadzi
k'a-
dəi, dzii
k'a-
ts'iishd'iini
Muutsim'e
hatrani
tabinuska
kawaayu
kawaayu ( k'adya )
gaach'a, ədə'ə
ichən'i, katrə, 'aam'a
guw'a 
m'iitra 
k'adziwa k'atsi
hinum'e
haam'e
ha'apeetukani
dik'a
k'aiy'a
me'esru
dyarapati 
peetra
sruuhuuna 
Naatsi Kasraiti
m'aatsa'ani
sbuuna 
Səna Daaw'aatra 
Sawa Daaw'aatra
k'ani
chidya, katrə
hi'iska
gu'istyasra 
K'awaika
K'awaikam'e
kaneeru waasht'i
ha'ats'i
dzeeni
ch'aai
uuy'ast'im'i
masaa'ni
ha'mani
iyaani
maasr'a
butruw'isti
sh'ap'atsi
waasht'i
m'eyu 
r'uuku
pitraam'i
ts'itrə
ham'a 
shina
amu
pan'atsi
hatrətsai
iisa
n'auya 
M'eyu Ts'ətra Daaw'aatra
Uutisi Daaw'aatra
baa 
Diits'iyaam'a
sh'aana 
israani
waawa 
meruuni, daani
k'uuti
yeetu
awan'i
Baasu'um'e
haashgaa'ni
səna
dyədziyaadzini 
huwiini 
piitsi haash'uuwimi 
srpaat'i 
Ruunishi 
daaw'aatra 
daaw'aatra 
gaayu
yaasti 
sh'uy'uuna
k'awina 
m'ida 
n'aaya
k'uuti
muuk'aitra
muuk'aitra waasht'i
k'uudi'idza 
siyana
w'iik'ani
Kaweeshtima
maame
y'aasba'tawe, m'eewa
s'a-
uubək'aak'atsi
hanaami
siisru
Tene
hadaw'ini 
uishtyəgəni 
naatsi
haam'aashu
an'ee 
k'apishuni, nuuwe 
mayuk'u 
k'atsi mayuk'u dzidra 
dza 
sənatsidiya 
Tidyami
Diyaha
didi
w'ishiini
dzaa 
Shuum'ə Daaw'aatra
w'ai
ha'aba'ani
haapani 
Hayaats'i Daaw'aatra
huuchani 
hin'a 
dzawini
dik'a 
isrka ( iska )
haatrəni
ku 
ma'ee k'uuchini
hau chaatya
kuukuupa
weeyəsə
uuy'u'srkam'i 
naat'aka 
uish'adrani 
shaawitya
hiyaani 
maraasi 
beera
srk'uruuna
y'aapadiina
udyaat'itaan'i
han'u
pashdyeera 
kujiinu
haani
kədrətrətsi 
dyaiy'aani
dyaitse
shaak'u
dzaatyau
kiw'a
pətatsishi
k'aakaat'i
iishiitsi
haat'awe 
iisr'a
ada'ushi
tiy'aani
taasrk'ana
dyuuni, sbuuna 
nəti 
haaniya-sh'aməgani
haak'u 
tudatsi 
daani 
pishəəna 
srkasrkauka
winunu
maaku
kumasdan'a 
dyeetya 
gay'aaw'iiti
kaachani, kaacha
kashtyaatsi 
kaachanishi
sritsi 
esrga
kəəgani
y'aa'a
yagət'əni 
rishduuna
riiku 
haashdyaak'aani
chəna
hiyaani 
shaasrk'a 
w'iisrk'a
k'aiy'a
waawaitrini
uusiudyan'i
k'ui, k'uidze 
ts'ay'aa'a 
srk'əə'di, srguditsi
udidyuwist'i 
ayaats'i
pakura
shupə, huubin'i
m'ina
dzeem'ə 
Dityabamu
ya'ai
y'aasha'wi
baani
Damaya
diiwim'e 
Saawaru 
uudinatsi 
kudyaat'ita
shətrəni
gaw'itsi 
Uw'aititaan Daaw'aatra 
maityana 
k'atsi maityana dzidra
dzaipə
aasbanashum'en'i
st'uuw'i 
daaparu 
kaneeru 
haash'uwimi
y'uuspiini
maidyupi
chaatyau 
ga'au 
jiijii 
sh'isa 
k'atsi sh'isa dzidra
pisch'anani 
huwak'a 
kausa
druusishə
gur'ar'aka, waani
k'uisdyam'a 
bereretsi 
sruwi
waasi
haawe
awee
mushi
duwimishi
wasr'atsi
hau
haasi
y'uuni
y'uubi'ini 
kisa 
Kuwami 
kashdyəra 
kashdyəra 
k'auw'aata
k'amasrku 
w'aakə 
kuchaaru 
T'iitra
haak'aka
t'ak'atsi 
daani 
siitya
sh'iti'ita 
waisht'i
y'aw'asti 
iishiigamu
y'aauni
isdupə
st'ə'ə
baasru
kusum'e'esta
kaisum'e'esta
yaana 
Kasraiti
kasraidiidze
usraatra 
Tamiiku
hiishə
ədəəm'a'a 
gaishbitraatya 
kubəni
s'eeka 
seseega
kuw'ee'e
yusrk'an'i
dzeeni 
maguts'uyu
an'edza 
tisrk'aaw'i
k'uisrka 
k'atsi
waameesti 
dawaa'e
shu, sruw'ee
ai'
kaba
dzii 
k'atsi chami dzidra
duwa 
chami
k'ee 
Sruweewisi
srkatrə
haami
w'ai
isgaawa 
sh'aarauka
naachama
w'aachən'i
ha'ach'ani
sraa'di 
haram'eusru
hau
hiyaani
hiitra'ani
Maatisi 
tsina
shuwimi
hey'ati 
k'atsi dyuu dzidra 
dyuya k'atsi isrka dzidra 
dyuya k'atsi
dyuya 
kutsamudzani
ts'uk'u 
dyuu
sə'ətsi
nayaa 
dyə, dyənami
chaa'aat'a
maka'yawi
ts'uy'uka
maash'aitra 
ts'itsi 
kashdyəra daani 
Merikusi 
Bənami 
sht'iw'iw'itsi 
dzii
ts'itrəshi
kuusrk'ə'əditsi
hama 
haadi
haiti
huuw'aipi
sh'aawa
sh'amətsi
hau 
dzeeguma
ts'iy'a
truk'aawa
huy'ani
mendaana
Kuuku
hey'a
dik'a 
k'akana
k'uu 
shbiga
m'aani, dzeeni 
y'u'upə
shuuti 
kasraiti 
k'uuchini 
haa'a
suwa
na
hisrum'e
ha'ash'a
Ts'iiy'a
Səənim'e
Səəni

 


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For a much Larger Vocabulary ( and Grammar ) of KERESAN,
see pp. 53-190 of the Smithsonian printable PDF download link right below


The Language of Santa Ana Pueblo, by Irvine Davis - PDF
SMITHSONIAN BULLETIN 191, ANTHROPOLOGICAL PAPERS, No. 69


( note about PDF text ( also Miller's grammar ) - the retroflexes - - - ç - are transcribed nowadays as sr, tr, tr )

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Acoma 1899
Acoma circa 1899
 

KERESAN LANGUAGE CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES Link

ZUNI LANGUAGE CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES Link

ZUNI LANGUAGE DICTIONARY / VOCABULARY Link

DINÉ LANGUAGE CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES Link

EL MORRO QUADRILINGUAL VOCABULARY Link

 

dyaana kawaayu
In Memoriam Wick R. Miller
 

Other Online Keresan Resources

Grammatical and lexical notes on the Keres language
(Acoma-Laguna dialect) of Keresan by N. Toomey - PDF link

Grammatical and lexical notes on the Keres language
(Acoma-Laguna dialect) of Keresan by N. Toomey - PDF link

1882 Laguna Indian translation of McGuffey's Reader PDF link

American Bible Society 1936 New Testament Acts in Keresan PDF


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 to those Brave Souls who have defended
 our Freedom of Speech

 

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