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aksanváhiich a flower, the shooting-star
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #279 | revised Feb 03 2014
aksanváhiich • N • a flower, the shooting-star Dodecatheon hendersonii (NPDC).
Literally: 'imitation bad luck'
| Derivation: | aaksâanva-hiich | (= aaksâanva-a-hiich) |
| bad.luck-imitation | (= get.bad.luck-DEVERB-imitation) |
Source: WB 66.1.1, p.316
See aaksâanva2 'bad luck' See -hiich 'imitation'
Sentence example (1)
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paxiitíchas kich uumkun vúra táv kun'ikyâatihanik,
kunvíiktihanik peethríhar aanmûuk,
aksanváhich,
kár axpaheekníkinach,
káru tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich,
xás vaa yúpin tá kunpúuhkhin.
Only the children used to make a vizor, weaving the flowers with string, shooting stars, and white lilies, and bluebells, and they put it around their foreheads.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text