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páthak knee
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lexicon ID #4628 | revised Aug 23 2005
páthak • N • knee
Derivative (1)
ishyuxpathak'ápxaan "hat made of elk's kneeskin, worn with elkskin armor"
Source: WB 1090, p.371
Note: The locative is páthakan 'on the knee'.
- kári xás ukûuntakish, páthakan ukûuntakish. Then she sat down, she sat on his knee. [Reference: KS44. Grizzly and hazelnuts 052]
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víri vaa kun-kupi-tih patha-kan-'ávak tá kun-thataktakúraan pa-mukun-yáfus pa-mukun-yupastáran mûuk pa-kun-'ívun-ti kahyuras'afishríhan so so 3pl(>3s)-do-DUR knee-Locative-above PERF 3pl(>3s)-be.tattered the-3plPOSS-dress the-3plPOSS-tear.(from.weeping) with.(by.means.of) NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-cry.for-DUR Klamath.Lakes.Young.Man They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man. Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text