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chimchikaratunvêech a plant, the horsetail
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lexicon ID #1141 | revised Oct 08 2014
chimchikaratunvêech • N • a plant, the horsetail Equisetum arvense (Schenck and Gifford, no. 12).
Literally: 'small scouring-rushes'
| Derivation: | chimchîikar-tunvêech | (= chimchîik-ar túnviiv-ach) |
| horsetail-small.(pl.) | (= chimchîik-INST children-DIM) |
Source: WB 293.1, p.330
See -tunvêech 'small (pl.)'