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Assiniboine Dictionary

Searching for English word(s): bird

Assiniboine pos English
hoyáze VI

1. to fish with the mouth, as a bird

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imógijiȟʾabe N

1. animal skin, bird skin or other object used during a gathering of the medicine men to shoot medicine into another person

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iyáhą VI-Y

1. to land, set down on the ground, as a bird or an airplane

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iyópsipsija VI

1. jump along, hop, as birds do

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kiyáhą VI

1. return to a nest, land in a nest; alight, as a flying bird

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mokám yeyá VT

1. to shoot and hit or strike while a target is in motion, as a man running or jumping or a bird flying

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mosíja VT

3. to make bare by shooting, as the hair of an animal or feathers of a bird

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moȟpá VT

1. to shoot off from a height, as a bird from a limb. or fruit in a tree, or a ram on a high ledge; to shoot down , as a bird in the air; to knock out of the air by shooting

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pasú N

2. bird's bill

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paǧų́nǧųdana N

2. a small wading bird

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peǧí N

1. a yellow-hooded blackbird

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sįdéʾųbi N

1. bird's tail

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wacónica N

1. dried meat (animal, bird, even buffalo or cow's lungs)

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wagáȟpa VT

2. to scare up, as birds in brush

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wagíyą N

1. thunderbird; thunder beings

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wagíyąbi N

1. birds, ones that fly

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wahóȟpi N

1. a nest; a bird's nest

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wapáǧi N

1. yellow-hooded blackbird

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wapáǧi N

2. red headed blackbird

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wasną́snąheja [wasną́snąhejA] N

1. kingbird

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