naʔuti

Ktunaxa

Alternative recordings

  • na.u´te· (by Boas & Chamberlain)[1]
  • naʔotɛ́ʸ (by Kramer)[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /naʔuti/

Etymology

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Noun

naʔuti[3]

  1. (sociology) girl, female child
    Coordinate term: niȼtahaⱡ (“boy”)
    • c. 1891, Paul, The Frenchman and his Daughters (№ 23) line 10:[4]
      [Qake´ine·] nei na.u´te· ma koqa´ke·. Qak.ła´pse· su´ʼēs kkanmi·´yɪt hutsts'ɪ[-nax̣ała´ane·.]
      [Qakiʔni] niʔ naʔuti "ma·qakiʔki." Qakⱡapsi susi "kanmiyit huȼ ȼi[naxaⱡani."] (Modern orthography)
      The girl said: "You said so." Her father said to her: "Let us go tomorrow."

References

  1. ^ Boas, Frank; Chamberlain, Alexander Francis (1918), Kutenai Tales‎[1], Boston, Massachusetts: Smithsonian Institution, page 363
  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 1
  3. ^ https://www.firstvoices.com/ktunaxa/words/02bf0693-3a27-43af-9783-d19e580de81d
  4. ^ Boas, Frank; Chamberlain, Alexander Francis (1918), Kutenai Tales‎[3], Boston, Massachusetts: Smithsonian Institution, page 34
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