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vírax to lick
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6567 | revised Jan 14 2016
vírax • V • to lick
Derivation: | vir |
suck |
Derivatives (2)
víraxsip "to lick up"
víraxsur "to lick off"
Source: WB 1552, p.394
- yánava pa'ás pooviraxvíraxti paparamvará'as. They saw he was licking the stones, the salmon boiling stones. [Reference: TK 265.27]
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tîi matêe kanipvínaxsunachi let... later let.me.lick.it.off.a.little "Let me taste it by sticking out my tongue. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textxás kúkuum upvínaxsunach then again he.licked.it.off Then he tasted it again by sticking out his tongue. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full texttîi kanvínaxsunachi let... let.me.lick.it.a.little Let me lick it off! Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full textpúyava paaxíich yiivári tu'íipma xás tóo pviraxsîip you.see when.the.child rather.far she.went.back then she.did lick.it.back.up Then when the child went away, she licked it up. Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full textxás tóo pviraxsîip then she.did lick.it.back.up Then she licked it up. Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text