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ihêeraha tobacco (wild or domestic), tobacco plant
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1535 | revised Oct 14 2015
ihêeraha • N • tobacco (wild or domestic), tobacco plant Nicotiana bigelovii (Schenck and Gifford, no. 206). Variant: ihêera.
Literally: 'being smoked'
| Derivation: | ihêer-aha-a |
| smoke-ESS-DEVERB |
Derivatives (5)
iheeraháamvaan "Nuttall's whippoorwill "
iheeráhaan "smoker, person who smokes"
iheerahamvanvasih'ikxúrik "whippoorwill back design, used in tobacco baskets"
iheerahasípnuuk "tobacco basket (O'Neale, p. 40)"
ithimkak'ihêeraha "morning sun slope tobacco"
Source: WB 417.1, p.336; JPH pla 06:556
Note: Refers to tobacco leaf, as opposed to uhípih 'tobacco stem' (JPH mat 15:776).
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