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xunyêep tan oak tree
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lexicon ID #6914 | revised Feb 04 2016
xunyêep • N • tan oak tree Lithocarpus densiflora (Schenck and Gifford, no. 74).
Literally: 'tan-oak-soup tree'
| Derivation: | xúnyav-iip | (= xuun yav-iip) |
| tan.oak.acorn-tree | (= acorn.soup good-tree) |
Derivatives (2)
xunyeep'áxviish "tan oak bark"
xunyêepshurukhitihan "prince's pine, pipsissewa, umbellate wintergreen"
Source: WB 1631.2, p.398; JPH pla 06:522
- víri poothivishrîihvuti pasára poo'áamti, víri vaa ukupa'ifshîiprinahiti paxunyêep. When the bread dropped in little pieces as he ate, tan oak trees grew up. [Reference: TK 68.41]
- hâari xunyéepriik káru kun'ahíshriihvuti. Sometimes they also burn where the tan oak trees are. [Reference: TK 64.13]
Short recording (1) | Sentence examples (3)