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áfish / áfishrih to touch
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #135 | revised Oct 31 2014
áfish / áfishrih • V • to touch
Derivatives (2)
afísheen "to feel (by touching)"
vith'áfishaan "by-name for the raccoon, raccoon got this name because he did that when he was still a person"
Source: WB 20, p.314
- víri ûum ni'áfishrih pastove top. I could barely reach the stove top. [Reference: WB T93. Violet cooking 012]
- tíikan ára uxváhahiti patu'áfishahaak patapas'ihêeraha. The real tobacco makes a person's hands sticky, when one touches it. [Reference: TK 47.19]
Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (10)