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páthak knee
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lexicon ID #4628 | revised Aug 23 2005
páthak • N • knee
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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 kunkupitih pathakan'ávak tá kunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan so so they.were.doing.it above.the.knee PERF they.were.tattered their.dresses their.tears with.(by.means.of) that.they.were.crying.for.him 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