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vûuksaha / vûuksahi- have a work contest (as in shelling acorns)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6697 | revised Jan 25 2016
vûuksaha / vûuksahi- • V • have a work contest (as in shelling acorns)
Source: WB 1567, p.395
- chími nuvûuksahinaa. Let's have a work contest! [Reference: WB T79.5]
Sentence examples (3)
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xás tá kunpíip "
chími nuvûuksahinaa."
They would say, "Let's have a contest!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Work Contests" (WB_KL-79) | read full text -
púyava tá kunpavyíhuk,
kári xás "
chími nuvûuksahinaa."
So they came home and then (they said), "Let's have a contest!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Work Contests" (WB_KL-79) | read full text -
hâari kunvûuksahinaatih.
Sometimes they had a work contest.Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text