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naa

Dictionary entry

naavn • step, tread on, walk

Lexicon record # 2058 | Source reference(s): R228 FS(B209)

Sentence examples (2)

  1. Kowecho' naa menomenoote'm 'ne-lep.
    Stop pulling my hair.

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    — Aileen Figueroa, Sentences (JB-005_4) (JB-005_4, 2002)

  2. [Kus soo cheeeshep' yok nee huene'm?] Nuemeechue so'n cheeeshep', mee' kue weykonee wee'. Wohpekuemew meesh koh weyko'm, neekeechue soo kue cheeeshep'. 'ue-meskem nuemee soochok'w. Nuemeechue soo kaap' huuenek'w, mee' weeshtue' 'ue-meskwoh. Mos 'ok'w meges, neemo 'ok'w ho meges. 'Oohl naa megeske'w. Weet mehl ho huuene'm Wohpekuemew 'ue-mes. Weeshtue' 'eeyoh 'ue-mes.
    [What kinds of flowers are around here?] There are all kinds of flowers, because the creator finished all of that. Wohpekumew had finished them, all different kinds of flowers. Medicine is the same way. There are all kinds of plants, because that's his medicine. There was no [white] doctor. They didn't have doctors then. They had Indian doctors. That is why they grew, as Wohpekumew's medicine. He just picked his medicine anyplace].

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    — Alice Spott, Ethnobiology (AS1, 1962 or 1963)