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Assiniboine Dictionary

Assiniboine pos English
gaȟába VT

to drive away, as birds in a garden; to scare off by whipping, using a whip or stick; to start, flush out, scare up

Examples:
tokám gaȟába FB: JE 4.155, JT; CTK: DO (Drive it off away from the others! (as in cutting a horse out of a herd))
wįcágaȟabac FB: JE 4.155, JT; CTK: DO (He drove them by whipping, as a whip man at a dance using his whip to get people up and dancing)
Paradigmatic Forms:
gaȟabac He scared it off by whipping it, using a whip or stick (3rd sg subj)
gaȟábe He scared it up, flushed it out, drove it along (3rd sg subj)

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