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asiktavankêem woman's name, Mary Ike
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lexicon ID #659 | revised Aug 01 2014
asiktavankêem • N • woman's name, Mary Ike
Literally: 'homely woman'
| Derivation: | asiktávaan-kêem | (= áas iktav-aan-kêem) |
| woman-bad | (= water hold.in.hand-Agentive-bad) |
Source: WB 145.6.1, p.321
Note: Also called yaamachkáree 'woman's_name ; Mary_Ike' .
See -kêem 'bad, homely'