noun, animate an arrow

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate/inanimate intransitive s/he, it adheres

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate s/he widens it (using sth)

verb, animate intransitive 1) s/he sits 2) s/he stays 3) s/he is home 4) s/he is placed, set

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate/inanimate intransitive 1) s/he, it becomes rocky, stony 2) s/he, it becomes a rock, a stone

noun, animate biblical: the Word (of God), the Logos

Example: Mâwac nîštam kî ihtâw Ayamiwin, Ayamiwin mâka kî wîcewew Kihci-Manitowa, nešta Ayamiwin kî kihci-manitowiw < John 1:1, New Testament (1991)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive (reduplication) s/he sits around, stays put

verb, animate intransitive (antipassive) 1) s/he provides others with food 2) s/he feeds others

verb, animate intransitive s/he sneezes

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, animate Balsam Fir (Abies balsamea)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate s/he raises it (manually)

verb, transitive inanimate 1) s/he marks it thus with designs or symbols 2) s/he writes on it thus 3) s/he writes it thus

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate s/he points at it

verb, animate intransitive s/he says sth

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate archaic: s/he sends it there

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive (reduplication, antipassive) s/he asks a question

verb, inanimate intransitive it slips

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive animate s/he makes h/ known

particle certainly

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive s/he carries it up the bank on foot

Speaker: Eleanor McLeod

noun, inanimate (toponym) Kwetabohigan River, Ontario (a tributary of the Moose River)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, inanimate intransitive (reduplication) it rebounds repeatedly

noun, animate 1) Common Raven (Corvus corax) 2) by extension, a crow (Corvus spp.)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

preverb past tense marker; peyakwanohk kî tašîhkewak they dwelled in the same place, weškac kî pimâtisîw he lived long ago

Speaker: Hilda Jeffries

verb, animate intransitive s/he is conspicuous

verb, animate intransitive s/he is secretive, sly

verb, animate intransitive s/he is coiled up

verb, transitive animate s/he returns to h/

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate 1) s/he finds it displeasing, s/he dislikes it 2) s/he is displeased

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, inanimate 1) ill-mannered behaviour 2) religion: sin

Speaker: Eleanor McLeod

verb, animate intransitive s/he makes shoes

noun, inanimate a piece of firewood, a log

Speaker: Eleanor McLeod

verb, animate intransitive s/he piles firewood

Speaker: Eleanor McLeod

verb, animate intransitive s/he lays it bare, uncovered

verb, animate intransitive s/he stripteases

demonstrative, animate (distal, exclamatory) (plural of mâcikanwâhwa) there they are!

demonstrative, inanimate (distal, exclamatory) there it is!

verb, transitive inanimate s/he presses it (using sth)

verb, transitive inanimate s/he picks them up (manually)

noun, dependent inanimate a conical lodge (e.g., a tipi, lavvu, Sibley tent, Bell tent, etc.)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate s/he is merry

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive (antipassive) s/he amuses others, s/he entertains others

verb, transitive animate s/he positions h/ properly

verb, animate intransitive s/he hunts

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

preverb to go do (sth); natawi-mîcisow s/he goes to eat, natawi-kanawâpahtam s/he goes to look at it

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

particle (reduplication) 1) in groups of two, two by two 2) two each

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

particle 1) four (stick-like) things 2) by extension, four shot

verb, animate intransitive s/he is killed in a collision - synonym nâspicišin

noun, inanimate a room or building for sleeping (e.g., a bedroom, a hotel, etc.)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate s/he adds water to it

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

particle three

Speaker: Eleanor McLeod

verb, animate intransitive (reduplication) s/he nods h/ head repeatedly - synonym nânâmiskweliw, nânâmištikwânepalihow

particle (locative) at the shore

verb, transitive animate 1) s/he goes to h/ (by boat or flying) 2) s/he fetches h/ (by boat or flying)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive animate archaic: 1) s/he goes to h/ 2) s/he fetches h/

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

particle seventy

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive s/he has two hands

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive s/he is famished

noun, animate archaic: see nôtakwew

verb, transitive animate s/he takes h/ up (flying)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, dependent animate h/ elder sister(s)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive s/he has a cold

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, dependent inanimate h/ elbow

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive animate s/he sticks it or causes it to adhere on sth

verb, transitive animate s/he brings h/ news

particle (locative) on the wall

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive s/he shoots an arrow

verb, inanimate intransitive there is a hump or mound of sand

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive animate (reduplication) s/he pats h/ on the head

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive animate s/he breaks it (using sth or by hitting it)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate s/he twists it (manually)

verb, transitive animate s/he sticks a finger or hand in h/ mouth

verb, animate intransitive s/he spits

Speaker: susa

verb, animate intransitive s/he fills it

noun, inanimate love (i.e., received)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, inanimate (locative) last spring

verb, transitive animate 1) s/he ducks h/, dodges h/ 2) figuratively: s/he shuns h/

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive animate s/he halves it (manually)

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

demonstrative, inanimate (interrogative) 1) which one 2) idiom: tânima piko I do not know

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate s/he threads it

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive s/he splits it (using a saw)

verb, transitive inanimate s/he arranges it (string-like) (manually), s/he sets it (string-like) up (manually)

verb, transitive animate (reduplication) s/he sits h/ down - synonym walapihew

noun, animate (refers to both genders if plural but only to men if singular) a person of mixed Native American and European ancestry

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, animate a relative

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, inanimate Reindeer Lichen (Cladonia rangiferina)

verb, animate intransitive 1) s/he has a white head 2) s/he has white hair

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, inanimate rabbit snare wire

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

particle 1) soon 2) early

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, inanimate intransitive (plural) contraction of niyânânewišâpinwa

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate 1) s/he thinks it is difficult 2) s/he worries about it 3) s/he worries

verb, transitive inanimate s/he talks about it

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, animate 1) obsolete: a loincloth 2) a diaper

verb, transitive animate s/he carries h/ from one place to another

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

demonstrative, animate (proximal) (obviative of awa) this/these; this one/these ones

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, transitive inanimate 1) s/he urinates on it 2) s/he discharges it while urinating; Mihko ni šikiten. I have blood in my urine.

verb, transitive inanimate s/he spreads sth pasty over it (manually)

noun, inanimate slush

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

noun, animate a mink

Speaker: Susan Cheechoo

verb, animate intransitive s/he turns it into wine