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impur / impura- acorn flour; now also wheat flour, perhaps originally flour from grass seeds
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #2484 | revised Dec 19 2014
impur / impura- • N • acorn flour; now also wheat flour, perhaps originally flour from grass seeds
Derivatives (3)
impúrak "a place upriver from Happy Camp"
impurávaas "flour sack"
tahéempur "powdery snow"
Source: WB 589, p.345
Note: Cf. ikpur 'acorn flour'.
Sentence examples (2)
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xás peempúr kin'ákih.
And (the whites) gave them flour.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text -
xás pakunpávyiihma xás kunpiyvêeshrihva peempúr.
And when they got home, then they poured out the flour.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text