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| Cup'ig | English Gloss |
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| Mecagmiut Kuigat | river of Mecagmiut |
| Mecagmiut | site in a bay on the southern side of Nunivak Island, meaning village of mecag (wet swampy area) |
| mecaliqer | big soft wet snowflake |
| mecalqer | wet tundra; swampy marshy tundra |
| mecangqag | hip |
| mecangqi- | to make a smacking sound |
| mecaqtar | female lapland longspur |
| meci- | to be soaked; to absorb water |
| Meciarun | personal name, meaning seal oil implement |
| mecignaate- | to be barely visible; to be hard to see |
| mecignarqe- | to be clearly visible; to be easy to see |
| mecike- | to be able to see (it) clearly |
| mecikenrite- | cannot clearly see |
| mecugte- | to dip into water |
| mecunge- | to be wet; to be soaked |
| mecungte- | to get wet; to wet |
| mecungyugnaate- | will not get wet |
| mecungyuilzngur | marsh cinquefoil; marsh five-fingers |
| megtar | bumblebee |
| megtat neqait | lousewort; roseroot; any flowering plant that bumble bees feed on |
| megute- | to get possession of |
| mekiyir | something or someone close; close relative |
| mellaarissun | a utensil to burn out lamp |
| Mell'arpag | personal name, meaning giant |
| Mella'ar | personal name, meaning plugged |
| mellaarissun | a told to snuff out candle light |
| melluurun | snuff snorter; snuff tube |
| melqiun | mature Alaska cotton-grass |
| melquleg | fur-bearing animal |
| melqulliurta | game warden |
| melquqsug | bird feather |
| melqur | fur; feather |
| melug- | to smoke tobacco; to suck |
| melugyunrite- | does not want to smoke |
| meluskar | powdered snuff for snorting |
| meluskautar | snuff box |
| melzngur | beetle |
| mengla | boundary; edge |
| mengqi- | to make a crackling sound |
| mengqullegtar | bunchberry |
| menkuke- | to send a visitor without having him or her eat |
| meqcir- | to age an animal skin to remove fur or hair |
| meqcirer | sealskin aged to remove hair and stretched on stakes over ground (hide is then used for making boot soles) |
| meqe- | to shed hair |
| meqete- | to remove feathers or hair; to remove feathers along with skin |
| meqsug- | to be thirsty |
| meqtacir(ar) | aged animal skin |
| mer- | to drink |
| merayer | cyst |
| merigte- | to fold; to hem |
| merinite- | to blend in with land formation and not be visible anymore; to disappear over a hill or mountain |
| mernuirute- | to be refreshed; to no longer be tired |
| mernur- | to be tired; to be exhausted |
| merpallag- | to drink too much |
| mertarrsun | bucket |
| merug- | to descend (for example, going down a hill) and disappear; to burrow underground |
| merwig | water barrel |
| metenglliaqer- | to spring off |
| metr(ar) | eider of any type; parka made out of eider skins with feather |
| metrapig | female common eider |
| Miinguartarcirwig | site on Nunivak Island, Ingricuam nanwa near Qengartaaremiut, meaning one who pretends to pack water |
| miinguartarkar- | to pretend to pack water |
| Miissar | personal name, meaning one who give drinks |
| miite- | to provide water |
| mikelke- | to find (it) to be too small for oneself |
| Mikngayar | personal name, meaning one who is small |
| mikte- | to be little; to be small |
| Mikuryarmiut Kuigat | river of Mekoryuk |
| Mikuryarmiut Taciat | bay of Mekoryuk |
| Mikuryarmiut | Mekoryuk (only year-round inhabited on Nunivak Island), meaning village of abundance |
| milqaute- | to throw (it) at something |
| miluqar- | to throw something at it |
| mimer | roots flaring out from trunk of uprooted tree; hind |
| mimernar1 | quarter of an animal |
| mimernar2 | lower part of a tree trunk including the flare and lateral root |
| mineg- | to be or become moldy |
| mingqar | grass basket |
| mingqe- | to sew; to mend |
| mingqii- | to make a grass basket |
| mingug | color; butter; margarine or other product to spread on bread or cracker |
| mingug- | to become soiled; to spread butter; to smear |
| mingugiss'un | butter knife |
| minirrliklangayag- | for there to be wet drizzly fog |
| minirrlir- | to drizzle |
| minirrlug | drizzle |
| miqsar | hard bluish stone used for making wood shaping tools (very rare and valuable) |
| Miqsarmiut Kuigat | river of Miqsarmiut |
| Miqsarmiut | site at a bay on the western side of Nunivak Island, meaning village of the hard bluish stone used for making wood shaping tools |
| Mirasgan | personal name, meaning one who regurgitates |
| miryangcar- | to make one vomit |
| miryar- | to vomit |
| miryara- | to vomit repeatedly or continuously for a while |
| miss'ug | burlap bag |
| mistuqute- | to join with others who are doing something |
| miswig | airport |
| mit'e- | to land (from the air) |
| miter- | to be dark in color |
| miuyegqutar- | to make a face; to stick out the tongue |
| miuyegte- | to scowl; to pout |
| Miya'ar | personal name, perhaps meaning one who scowls |
| mug | breast |
| muggsuuteg | bra |
| mugte- | to suckle |
| muir- | to leak; to ooze fluids |
| muk'ar | flour; bread |
| mukaar | a flour; a bread |
| mula | nipple of breast |
| mulzngayugwig | place where one ought to be careful, or to be watchful |
| mulut'ug | hammer |
| mumer | drum-stick (for example, for use with an Eskimo drum) |
| mumigte- | to repent; to reverse |
| munar- | to be gentle and careful, to be good at doing arts & crafts |
| munrir- | to be weaned |
| murilkaate- | to be unobservant; to not pay attention |
| murilke- | to be careful; to watch; to observe |
| muru- | to sink into quicksand, snow or mud |
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