niȼtahaⱡ

• nɪtsta´hał (“youth”) (by Boas & Chamberlain)^[1]
• nɪctahaⱡná·na (by Kramer)^[2]

• IPA^(key): /nit͡stahaɬ/

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niȼtahaⱡ^[3]

1. (sociology) boy, male child

   Coordinate term: naʔuti (“girl”)

   • c. 1918, Mission Joe & Felix Andrew, The Animals and the Sun (№ 48) lines 46-50:^[4]

     Qakiłɪł´ne· ne_i nɪtsta´hał: "Hɪntsx̣ałʼɪ´n·e· nata´n·e_ik!." Ktsɪłmi´yɪt.sts ta´x̣as łats!ɪn·a´x̣e· o·´k!^uq_una ksła`matɪ´ktse<sub>i</sub>ł ktsx̣a´ł`ɪn nata´ne_ik!s. Ne_i nao´k!^ae· nɪtsta´hał ne_i ktsaqu´n·a saosaqa´_ane·. Qakiłɪ´łne·: "Nɪ´nko hɪntsx̣ałts!ɪna´x̣e· na ktsɪłmi´yit. Hɪntsx̣ałʼɪ´ne· ktsɪłmetɪłnu´qka."
     Qakiʔⱡiⱡni niʔ niȼtahaⱡ: "Hin ȼxalini natanik̓." K-ȼiⱡmiyits ȼ taxas ⱡaȼina[si ka·kuk̓p] k-ⱡamatikȼiⱡ k-ȼxaⱡin natanik̓s. Niʔ nawk̓i niȼtahaⱡ niʔ k-ȼaquna sawsaqaʔni qakiʔⱡiⱡni: "Ninku hin ȼxalȼina[s]i na k-ȼiⱡmiyit. Hin ȼxalini k-ȼiⱡmiyitnuqka." (Modern orthography)

     The boy was told: "You shall be the Sun." In the evening he came back, because it was bestowed to him, to be the Sun. The other boy, the younger one, stayed there. He was told: "You shall go in the evening; you shall be the Moon."