Quapaw Language:

difficult, too much, too high a price

wa-te-xi (wattéxi)

difficult, too much, too high a price (RR-Quapaw)

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Saturday
*haⁿ-ba wa-te-xi zhi-ka (hą́ba wattéxi žíka)*	Speaker - Maude Supernaw
day - difficult - little, small

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Difficult Female Haⁿ-ka (personal name)
*haⁿ-ka mi te-xi (hą́ka mi ttéxi)*	Speaker - Fannie Goodeagle Richards
haⁿka - female - difficult, hard to obtain, sacred, precious

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the only precious, difficult one (personal name)
*e-naⁿ mi te-xi (éną mi ttéxi)*	Speaker - Odestine McWatters
only that, just that - female - difficult

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young girl (difficult female)
*mi te-xi (mi ttéxi)*	Speaker - Odestine McWatters
female - difficult, hard to obtain, sacred, precious

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Dhegiha Language Family Comparison

wa-te-xi (wattéxi) - difficult, too much, too high a price (RR-Quapaw)
wa-te-xi (watéxi) - difficult action with purpose, personal name (JOD-Omaha)
wa-ʰtse-xi (wa-ṭsé-xi) - difficult to destroy, to be tenacious of life, stingy, ungenerous, not liberal, penurious (FL-Osage)
wa-ʰtse-xi (waʰcéxi) - be difficult, hard, challenging, not easy to do (CQ-Osage)
wa-tse-xi (wacéxi) - be hard, difficult to endure, something difficult, aⁿ-maⁿ-tse-xi (aⁿmáⁿcexi) - I’m difficult, yi-wa-tse-xi (yiwácexi) - you’re difficult, wa-tse-xi (wacéxi) - he/she/it difficult, wa-wa-tse-xi-be (wawácexibe) - we’re difficult, yi-wa-tse-xi-be (yiwácexibe) - you all are difficult, wa-tse-xi-be (wacéxibe) - they’re difficult (Kanza)

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