wesget
Translation: He/she fishes
Part of Speech: verb animate intransitive
Meanings:
- fish
Example of word used in a sentence:
- Text: Newtinipg te'siula'gw ntjignam wesget.Translation: Every night in the summer my younger brother fishes.Recording: Recording by jnw 🔉
Pronunciation Guide: wes·ket
Alternate Grammatical Forms:
- wesgei -- I fish -- (first person singular animate)
- wesgeieg -- We fish -- (first person dual exclusive animate)
- wesg'tieg -- We fish -- (first person plural exclusive animate)
Related entries for category "fish"
- a'lulatl : guide (by boat)
- a'lutasit : guide (by boat) / fishing guide
- a'papi : rope / fishing line
- a'pi : net / fishnet
- a'pia'q : using a net / fishing with a net
- a'piet : fish with net
- a'pimit : have net
- agumegw : herring
- ajoqlue'j : perch
- amlmaw : mackerel
- anagwe'j : flounder
- atoqwa'su : trout
- atoqwa'sue'get : fish for trout
- awaniwsget : fishes poorly / unskilled fisherman
- e's : clam
- egwitamet : fish
- elqane'j : ground fish / any bottom feeder
- ga't : eel
- ga'tewe'get : hunt eels / catch eels
- ga'tomi : eelskin
- gaqpesaw : smelt
- glatpetaw : freshwater catfish / horned pout (kind of fish)
- go'pign : dip net (for fish)
- gomgwej : sucker (fish)
- gomqwatamu : sturgeon
- gwi'sit : jump (reference to fish)
- jagej : lobster
- jagejue'get : trap lobsters
- jigaw : bass
- mena'piet : remove fish from a net
- mena'piget : remove a net from the water
- mgign : hook / fish hook
- mntmu : oyster
- msamu : shad
- najipqasa'piet : go fishing with a net
- najiwsget : go fishing
- najsigwet : check traps or nets
- nantuat : hunt eels in mud
- napemegw : male fish
- nenatuat : feels around in the mud for eels / spears eels in the mud
- nigoq : fishing spear
- nigoqji'j : small two·pronged spear
- nigoqol : eel spear
- nijinj : roe / seed
- nisaqan : weir
- nme'j : fish
- nme'ji'j : any small fish / herring
- nme'juaqan : fishery / fishing industry
- nme'juo'q : fish bowl / fish tank
- pe'talatl : catch fish
- peju : codfish
- pejue'get : fish for cod
- pejuei : codfish meat
- pesa'latl : skin fish
- piwiges : scale (fish)
- plamu : salmon
- plamugwet : fish for salmon
- plamuj : tommy cod / frost fish
- poqjigwitmet : start off to fish
- poqjiwsget : begin to fish
- pqalmawj : black salmon
- put'p : whale
- put'pe'j : whale calf / young whale / small whale
- sasap : jellyfish
- sasqale's : scallop
- seta'su : squid
- sgwemegw : female fish
- siga'lat : spawn / to produce or deposit (eggs) as fishes or frogs do
- siga'law : spawn / (eggs) deposited from fishes or frogs
- siglati : shark
- so'qomu'j : minnow / gudgeon / sardine
- taqawan : grilse / young salmon / young salmon after its first return from the sea
- taqawanapi : grilse net / trout net
- taqawanji'j : grilse
- tmtmu : oyster
- umiggn : fishing gear / fishing rod
- usgaqan : fishery / fishing industry
- usgewinu : fisher
- wapigle'wj : male salmon
- waqtian : fish entrails / small fish entrails
- wesget : fish
- wisnaw : perch
- witua'tijig : partners in boat (used in guiding)