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típah (variant tipahêer) brother, male cousin
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lexicon ID #6081 | revised Nov 03 2015
típah • N • brother, male cousin
Variant tipahêer (lexicon ID #7598): Used in general plural tipahêeras
Derivative (1)
tipáhiichva "stepbrother"
Source: WB 1386, p.386
Note: The plural (without possessive prefixes) is tipahêeras, The possessed plural is, e.g., nanitipáhiivshas 'my brothers'.
- víri vaa káan kun'ífanik, samnanaktíshraam, tipahêeras, chimuchtunvêech. So there they were raised, at Forks of Salmon Valley, ten brothers, young lizards. [Reference: KS 9. Lizard and Grizzly 003]
- xás uxús pihnêefich, tîi kanpípaan pamutipáhiivsha, píith tákunsaam. Then Coyote thought, "Let me go tell his brothers," there were four left. [Reference: KS 9. Lizard and Grizzly 063]
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