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iftanmáhapuh seedling; volunteer plant
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lexicon ID #1491 | revised Apr 01 2014
iftanmáhapuh • N • seedling; volunteer plant
Literally: 'grown for nothing'
| Derivation: | if-tánmah-apuh |
| grow-for.nothing-having.been.-ed |
Source: WB 400.6, p.335
- ikmahachnampîimach káru vúra upíiftihanik iftanmáhapuhsahanik. (Tobacco plants) also used to grow by the sweathouse, they were volunteers. [Reference: TK 78.12]