Saturday

 

haⁿ-ba wa-te-xi zhi-ka

  
(hą́ba wattéxi žíka) Speaker - Maude Supernaw
day - difficult - little, small  

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haⁿ-ba wa-te-xi zhi-ka (hą́ba wattéxi žíka)

Saturday, little Sunday (RR-Quapaw)

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Dhegiha Language Family Comparison

  • haⁿ-ba wa-te-xi zhi-ka (hą́ba wattéxi žíka) - Saturday, little Sunday (RR-Quapaw)
  • haⁿ-ba wa-te-xi (hą́ba wattéxi) - Sunday (RR-Quapaw)

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  • haⁿ-ba (hą́ba), haⁿ-pa (hą́pa), hoⁿ-ba (hǫ́ba), hoⁿ-pa (hǫ́pa) - day, daytime (RR-Quapaw)
  • haⁿ-ba (hąbá), hoⁿ-ba (hǫbá) - light, the morning light (RR-Quapaw)
  • hoⁿ-pa (hǫ́pa) - day (RR-Quapaw)
  • aⁿ-ba (ą́ba) - morning, before daybreak (RR-Quapaw)
  • hoⁿ-ba (hom-bâ) - a day, 24 hours (LH-Quapaw)
  • oⁿ-ba (óⁿba) - day (Omaha/Ponca)
  • hoⁿ-ba (hoⁿ́-ba) - day (FL-Osage)
  • haⁿ-pa (hą́ąpa) - day, today (CQ-Osage)
  • haⁿ-ba (háⁿba) - day (Kanza)

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  • wa-te-xi (wattéxi) - difficult, too much, too high a price (RR-Quapaw)
  • 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 (Kanza)

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  • te-xi (téxi) - difficult, hard do (Omaha)
  • ʰtse-xi (ʰcéxi) - sacred, precious, difficult (CQ-Osage)

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  • zhi-ka (žiká, žíka), zhi-ga (žigá), zhiⁿ-ka (žįká, žį́ka) - small, little (RR-Quapaw)
  • zhiⁿ-ga (zhíⁿga) - small, little (Omaha/Ponca)
  • zhiⁿ-ga (zhiⁿ-gá) - small, little, young, little children (FL-Osage)
  • zhiⁿ (žį), zhiⁿ-ka (žįká) - a little, small amount of something, small, little, be little, small, children, little ones, kids (CQ-Osage)
  • zhiⁿ-ga (zhíⁿga) - be small (Kanza)