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axpaheekníkinach a plant, the "fawn-lily" or adder's tongue
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #936 | revised Mar 12 2014
axpaheekníkinach • N • a plant, the "fawn-lily" or adder's tongue Erythronium sp. (Schenck & Gifford, p. 390).
Literally: 'little headdress-attaching instrument'
| Derivation: | axpah ikriki-kir-a-ach |
| headdress -Instrumental-DEVERB-DIM |
Source: WB 226.1, p.327; JPH pla 06:518
Note: Equiv. to axpaheekníkaanich (JPH).
Sentence example (1)
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paxiitíchas kich uumkun vúra táv kun'ikyâatihanik,
kunvíiktihanik peethríhar aanmûuk,
aksanváhich,
kár axpaheekníkinach,
káru tiv'axnukuxnúkuhich,
xás vaa yúpin tá kunpúuhkhin.
Only the children used to make a vizor, weaving the flowers with string, shooting stars, and white lilies, and bluebells, and they put it around their foreheads.Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text