ⱡan̓

Ktunaxa

Alternative recordings

  • ła·nʼ (by Boas & Chamberlain)[1]
  • ɬan̓ (by Kramer)[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɬanˤ/

Etymology

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Noun

ⱡan̓[3]

  1. (fashion, footwear) moccasin, shoe
    • c. 1918, Barnaby, Wolf (№ 67) lines 4-6:[4]
      Nʼe·´tkɪns ła´nʼe·s tɪłnamu´ʼe·s at saha´nse·. Nʼe·´tkɪns łanʼɪ´se·s tat!ɪ´se·s at so´ukse·.
      N̓itkin-s ⱡan̓-s tiⱡnamuʔis, at sahansi. N̓itkin-s ⱡan̓-isis tat[naⱡ(a)]-isis at suʔksi. (Modern orthography)
      When his wife made moccasins for him, they were bad. When she made moccasins for her elder brothers, they were good.

References

  1. ^ Boas, Frank; Chamberlain, Alexander Francis (1918), Kutenai Tales‎[1], Boston, Massachusetts: Smithsonian Institution, page 370
  2. ^ Kramer, Marvin; Gravelle, Ambrose; Gravelle, Catherine; Whitehead, Frank (1969), Papers on the Kutenai Language (California Language Archive)‎[2], volume 1, Berkeley: University or California, →DOI, page 38
  3. ^ https://www.firstvoices.com/ktunaxa/words/6095ddf3-0a39-4115-9bbb-5a52c5af1449
  4. ^ Boas, Frank; Chamberlain, Alexander Francis (1918), Kutenai Tales‎[3], Boston, Massachusetts: Smithsonian Institution, page 224
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