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tav / tava- visor worn by girl in the flower dance ceremony
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lexicon ID #5758 | revised Dec 28 2015
tav / tava- • N • visor worn by girl in the flower dance ceremony
| Derivation: | tav-a |
| wear.visor-DEVERB |
Source: JPH mat 07:479
- paaxíitichas kích uumkun vúra táv kunikyâatihanik. Only the children used to make a visor (by weaving flowers with string). [Reference: TK 72.35]
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p-axiit-ích-as kich uumkun vúra táv kun-'ikyâa-tih-anik kun-víik-tih-anik p-eethríhar aan-mûuk aksanváhich kár axpaheekníkinach káru tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich xás vaa yúpin tá kun-púuhkhin PERF-child-DIM-PL only they Intensive visor 3pl(>3s)-make-DUR-ANC 3pl(>3s)-weave-DUR-ANC PERF-flower PERF-with.(by.means.of) flower.sp. also plant.sp. also bluebell.(dimin.) then that forehead PERF 3pl(>3s)-put.on.headband Only the children used to make a vizor, weaving the flowers with string, shooting stars, and white lilies, and bluebells, and they put it around their foreheads. Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text