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vôonfuruk to enter a house
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6606 | revised Jan 14 2016
vôonfuruk • V • to enter a house
Literally: 'to crawl indoors'
| Derivation: | vôor-fúruk |
| creep-indoors |
Source: WB 563.2, p.395
Note: Used of Indian houses because of their low doors, and by extension of white men's houses also.
- chími vôonfuruki, kûurish. Come on in and sit down! [Reference: KV]
- xás iinâak kun'iruvôonfuruk. Then they went inside the living house. [Reference: TK 265.4]