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ásivar / ásivan to go (somewhere) to sleep
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lexicon ID #681 | revised Oct 31 2014
ásivar / ásivan • V • to go (somewhere) to sleep
- ikmaháchraam takun'ásivanva. They went to the sweathouse to sleep. [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 050]
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kunpámvaar kun'ivyíihrupuk ikmaháchraam tá kun'ásivanva they.finished.eating they.went.outdoors sweathouse PERF they.went.(somewhere).to.sleep When they got through eating, they went outdoors, they went to their sweathouse to sleep. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text