Dictionary entry
pah-soy • vn • 1 confess evil thoughts or deeds 2 pray, recite a formula 3 "curing by a recital, probably a formula"
Lexicon record # 2434 | Source reference(s): R236 JE34 FS(B210) YM409
Special meaning or use
pah-soy mehl kue too'm ho serrhl confess for the many (bad) things done JE34
Sentence examples (2)
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Nek kwe-lekw keech mehl ho pah-soy.
They have prayed over me.
— Florence Shaughnessy, Sentences (LA138-028) (LA138-028, 1980)
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Wee-tue' kem 'o loo-loh-peen' pue-leek 'we-so pah-soy.
Then again she stirred it and blew downstream.— Pecwan Jim, "Upriver Coyote" (T8, 1907)