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tayiith Brodiaea, 'Indian potato,' blue dicks; the knot around which a basket is woven
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lexicon ID #5817 | revised Dec 29 2015
tayiith • N • Brodiaea, 'Indian potato,' blue dicks; the knot around which a basket is woven Dichelostemma capitatum (ITIS).
Derivatives (5)
apxantiichtáyiith "potato"
ixyunihatáyiith "firecracker plant"
tayíithha "to lash the base of (a basket)"
tayithxíkih "plant sp., a type of "Indian potato""
tayithxúnxuun "Brodiaea sp."
Source: WB 1363, p.385; JPH pla 06:514
Note: JPH also calls this 'cacomite', a Mex. Span. word. Cf. ataychúkinach 'Indian potato plant'.
- hâari axmáy ík vúra fátaak tákunmah vaa vúra taay patáyiith, xás sú' patakun'ûupvakurih. Sometimes they see somewhere a lot of Indian potatoes, and they dig in under. [Reference: TK 66.4]
Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (9)