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vir / vin- to suck (on)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6566 | revised Jan 14 2016
vir / vin- • V • to suck (on)
Derivatives (3)
vírax "to lick"
víraxsip "to lick up"
víraxsur "to lick off"
Source: WB 1551, p.394
- mâa páy miváfish, pihnîich, chími vin. Here's your liver, old man, suck on it! [Reference: KT 144.21]
Sentence examples (5)
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tîi matêe kanipvínaxsunachi.
"Let me taste it by sticking out my tongue.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
xás kúkuum upvínaxsunach.
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 text -
tîi kanvínaxsunachi.
Let me lick it off!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
púyava paaxíich yiivári tu'íipma xás tóo pviraxsîip.
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 text -
xás tóo pviraxsîip.
Then she licked it up.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text