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aaksâanva bad luck
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #24 | revised Feb 03 2014
aaksâanva • N • bad luck
| Derivation: | aaksâanva-a |
| get.bad.luck-DEVERB |
Derivative (1)
aksanváhiich "a flower, the shooting-star"
Source: WB 66.1, p.316
See aaksâanva (a/u) 'to incur bad luck'
Sentence example (1)
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paxiitíchas kich uumkun vúra táv kun'ikyâatihanik,
kunvíiktihanik peethríhar aanmûuk,
aksanváhich,
kár axpaheekníkinach,
káru tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich,
xás vaa yúpin tá kunpúuhkhin.
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