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fatavéenaan busybody; priest in world-renewal ceremony (Kroeber and Gifford, p. 7)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1295 | revised Mar 29 2014
fatavéenaan • N • busybody; priest in world-renewal ceremony (Kroeber and Gifford, p. 7)
Literally: 'something-doer'
| Derivation: | fâat vêen-aan |
| what pray-Agentive |
Derivatives (2)
fataveenanvíkapuh "medicine man's quiver"
fatavéeraaripux "without a priest (or medicine man, in the pikyávish)"
Source: WB 350.4, p.333
Sentence examples (6)
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fatavéenaan kuníkyav.
They made a priest.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text -
xás kári koovúra tá kunpáatvunaa,
xás páahak tá kunvíitkar ithyáruk pafatavéenaan.
And everybody bathed, and they rowed the priest across-river in a boat.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
pafatavéenaan poo'ípakahaak ikxúrar tóo pvíishrih,
xás vúra pa'áraar tá kun'íranva.
When the priest returned, evening was falling, and the people were coming to celebrate the world renewal.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
kári xás kúkuum fatavéenaan tuvâaram,
asaxêevar kúuk tu'uum.
And the priest went off again, he went to Baldy Peak.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
pafatavéenaan yáas u'ípak ikxúrar.
Then in the evening the priest returned.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
imáankam tóo pvâaram pafatavéenaan.
The next day, the priest went home.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text