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kîit female grand-relative through a woman; i.e., mother's mother, mother's aunt, daughter's daughter, or niece's daughter
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lexicon ID #3834 | revised Aug 16 2015
kîit • N • female grand-relative through a woman; i.e., mother's mother, mother's aunt, daughter's daughter, or niece's daughter Variant: kíit, kîitka.
Derivatives (3)
ipkiitpíyaan "female great-grand-relative through a woman, i.e. mother's grandmother or great-aunt, daughter's or niece's granddaughter"
ishpúkiit "a type of wasp"
kítvaas "female grand-relative through a deceased woman; i.e., mother or aunt of a dead mother, daughter of a dead daughter or niece"
Source: WB 890, p.361
Note: The diminutive is kíitach. The plural is kíitiivshas, formed with -iivshas 'PLUR' . Cf. kûut 'male grand-relative through a woman', átish 'grand-relative through a man'.
- mukúnkiit kôova kun'áraarahiti. They lived with their maternal grandmother. [Reference: TK 238.29]
- xás upiip, kîit chími naa taniváaram. And he said, "Grandmother, I'm going." [Reference: WB 20: The Perils of Weasel 3: 002]
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nanikîit neekshúpiheet.
My grandmother taught me.Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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iinâak pamúkiit úkrii.
His grandmother was home.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
xas pamúkîit upeer:
" tâak pamiyáfus níxraam."
And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.”Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
váa ta ifuchtîimich váa tápaan uxraam pamúkiit muyáfus.
Then at last he even bet his grandmother's dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
táay nik tá kunchífich vúra pu'ixraratihara,
váa xás u'ívur pamúkiit muyáfus.
They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
víri váa vúra payváhiim kári u'ívunti,
pakunpáxeepanik,
pamúkiit muyáfus.
He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
xás pamúkiit,
yúxnaam u'íripkurihanik,
kóova uxvíiphaanik.
And his grandmother, she dug into the sand, she got so mad.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
pananikîit îin neepsháravrikeesh.
My grandmother will help me.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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xás upiip "
kîit chími naa tá nivâaram.
And he said, "Grandmother, I'm going.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás kîit upiip, "
xáyfaat.
And (his) grandmother said, "Don't.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás upêer pamukîit "
peemáhaak '
nanipíkvas tóo kyívunih,'
tá ni'iv."
And he told his grandmother, "When you see my headdress-feather fall down, I'm dead."Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás kuníshtaakti hâari pamukit'íin.
And sometimes it was held by its grandmother.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text