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asá'uuy a placename
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lexicon ID #624 | revised Jun 26 2014
asá'uuy • N • a placename KS 26. Man Visits His Dead Wife 009.
Literally: 'rock hill'
| Derivation: | as uuy |
| rock hill |
Derivatives (2)
asa'uy'ikhúnipaach "placename"
asa'uy'íkhuraa "ridge leading up the hill, along which the spirits of the dead pass upon leaving this world"
Source: xás kunipêer, chími ikfúukraa, vaa vúra i'áhoovish pa'asa'uy'íkuraa.
See as 'rock' See uuy1 'hill'