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imyaat fur; body hair
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lexicon ID #2617 | revised Dec 17 2014
imyaat • N • fur; body hair
Derivatives (2)
imyátar "hairy"
imyátipux "hairless"
Source: WB 619, p.346; JPH 06:753
- vaa kumá'ii paxuskunishmúrax pamúmyaat. That's why his fur is nothing but slick. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 191]
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imyaat kúnish upiyáatunvaramoohitih.
It is like fur all compressed together.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text -
xás pakóo kuma'arará'uup,
pakun'ativútiihva,
pakóo kuméemyaat.
And what they were carrying was every kind of Indian treasure, every kind of fur.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text