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amtapanatunvêech a plant, the wooly sunflower
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lexicon ID #349 | revised Sep 17 2014
amtapanatunvêech • N • a plant, the wooly sunflower Eriophyllum lanatum. Variant: amtapanatunvêechas.
Literally: 'little dusty ones'
| Derivation: | ámtaap-ar-tunvêech | (= ámtaap-ar túnviiv-ach) |
| dust-having-small.(pl.) | (= dust-having children-DIM) |
Source: JPH/JF
See ámtaap 'dust' See -ar2 'having' See -tunvêech 'small'