Dictionary Entry [entry ID #3479] (related entries)
Phrases and expressions
ninis'a:n • the world, surface of the earth, country, mountain, land • noun • Semantic domain: geography
Note: possibly from nin'-sa'a:n (?) 'ground-which lies'
- ninis'a:n-me:q' all over the world [literally, the world-inside]
- ninis'a:n-mine:jit (or ninis'a:n-ne:jit) in the center of the world, the center of the universe [literally, the world- (in)(its) middle]
Note: term used in prayers - ninis'a:n-na:ng'a' the world assumed its present position, shape [literally, the world-came to be lying there again, resumed lying there]
Note: There was once a flood and the world floated back into place as we have it now. - ninis'a:n-no:ng'a:-ding the whole world, the farthest extent of the world [literally, the world-as far as it extends-place]
Audio (click to listen)
- ninis'a:n dina:n
hill (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ninis'a:n
plot of land (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ninis'a:n mina:ditoy
island (spoken by Verdena Parker)
- ninis'a:n minahstoy
island (spoken by Verdena Parker)
Examples from texts
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after a while the Indian doctors had a vision and said: "Hey, there's land way over there!"
And then they thought the land disappeared (under the water) every now and then,
"That land lying there is floating," they thought.
And then they said: "The land is starting to raise!"
A different land was floating there, they came running up to it, they say.
haya:ł k'iye:-ding dahxo:diwing'a:n k'iye: ninis'a:n dahwila:l hayah me:ya:xo:ning'a:n hayah k'iye: ya'de:lts'e'
And then when they ran across again, the next floating land (island) they ran to it, they stayed/camped there.
Right there (they realized) was a huge (in size) body of land lying there (not floating).
me:lah-'e:n' dahna:xo:diwing'a:n na:yima:n na:xo:ndi'a:n-e:y 'a:ya'de:ne' "ninis'a:n tin nikya:w sa'ung-xola:n
then some of them returned (to where they came from) and they said: "There's a big body of land over there, we found.
...then more people left to where the (island) is floating.
łiwun hay de:-nohq'it-xwa-'un-ching' ch'ixine:wh haya:ł 'a:ya:xołch'ine: "hayah wohdil-e:-te: haya:ł ninis'a:n-'ung' hayah
the one who prays/preaches for them. and then he tells them "There you will go. And there is land...
We're going to go to that land that was made for us.
We're going over the hill to our destination (the place that we are going).
You have to keep going to that land he has given you.
And then (all of a sudden) they saw the valley.
They would ruin the world (if they go against the Creator's law)."
and then where a big mountain was standing there, he [the creator] poked a hole with his finger
and then in the middle of time, there were a lot of stories taking place
diywho' do: xole:n 'e'n ła'ay-xw-q'ut niwho:n 'e'n ninis'a:n hayah wilda:l whino:ng'ay'din ch'iwilda:l haya:ł 'a'de:ne'
There was nothing out there, the land was good (clear, no objects in the way) at that time, it was running along, beside me he was running along, then he said...