Coast Miwok Vocabulary Illustrated

The images on the following pages help you learn Miwok vocabulary directly, usually without English getting in the way. Most of these images are nouns — animals, artifacts, geological features, etc. — and most of these are fairly easy to portray. Some of the images represent verbs — words that describe an action or a condition. These are in italics. For example, ussu and tuweeti are in italics because they present the action "to drink" (ussu) and the state or condition "to be straight" (tuweeti).

Some of the Miwok words show up under a bar that combines two images. This could mean that:

	The Miwok word has a wider meaning than the native article pictured, so there's a modern item next to it to show the wider range of meaning. For example, koccha refers to the traditional dome-shaped Miwok dwelling, but it means any house, so an image of an ordinary suburban house stands next to the traditional koccha.
		koccha

	The meaning of the Miwok word isn't necessarily clear with just one image, so two related images stand together to clarify the meaning. For example, kocchuk means "to break, be broken" so there are pictures of two different objects breaking.
		kocchuk