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áhasur / áhasuru- to drive away
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lexicon ID #183 | revised Oct 31 2014
áhasur / áhasuru- • V • to drive away
| Derivation: | áha-sur |
| drive.(animals)-off |
- vaa vúra payváheem úthvuuyti pirishkaarim'áhasurar, peekriripanpákurih. So new they are called "Grizzly-Driver-Away", the Amekyaram sweathouse songs. [Reference: KT 124.37]
See -sur 'off'
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váa vúra payváheem ú-thvuuy-ti pirishkaarim-'áhasur-ar p-eekriripan-pákurih so Intensive nowadays 3s(>3)-be.named-DUR grizzly-drive.away-INST the-placename-song It is still called grizzly-bear drive-away-medicine, those Amekyaram sweathouse songs. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text