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ᐁ ᓅᑕᒣᓵᓄᐧᐃᐦᒡ ᐁ ᓅᑖᒣᐦᓵᓅᐦᒡ
fishing
Words(111)
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ᒌᔥᑎᐦᒑᐱᔨᐤ chiishtihchaapiyiu
[vai]
N
s/he lets the fish net slip from her/his hands while preparing it

ᐃᔅᐱᐦᑎᐹᑭᓐ ispihtipaakin
[vii]
N
the water is the right depth for travelling, for setting and checking fish net

ᓵᒋᑯᑖᑭᒨ saachikutaakimuu
[vai]
N
s/he has his/her first kill ceremony (a ceremony for the first kill by a child where the jaw of a fish or the beak of a small bird is stuck in pemmican or steamed pudding and eaten at a feast)

ᓵᒋᐱᑎᐦᐄᐹᐤ saachipitihiipaau
[vai]
N
s/he puts floats and sinkers to fishnet (done when one is ready to put net in water)

ᑎᐱᓂᐦᐄᐹᐤ tipinihiipaau
[vai]
N
s/he measures out the distance between sinkers and floats on a fish net

ᐅᔖᑭᓂᐦᒑᐧᔖᐤ ushaakinihchaashwaau
[vai]
N
s/he filets the fish from the back, cutting so there are no bones left in the flesh, before the whole fish, with bones attached, is hung to be smoked

ᐅᔥᑭᐦᐄᐹᓂᒫᑯᐦᒑᐤ ushkihiipaanimaakuhchaau
[vai]
N
s/he throws the first fish caught in a new net back in the water after clipping off the end of one of its fins

ᐅᑎᓈᐹᐤ utinaapaau
[vai]
N
s/he pulls the twine attached on the end of the fish net to be checked in winter

ᐅᐧᐋᑎᓂᐦᐄᐹᐤ uwaatinihiipaau
[vai]
N
s/he prepares the fish net for setting, putting on sinkers and floats

ᐃᐧᔮᑯᓂᒋᐸᔫ iywaakunichipayuu
[vii]
S
there is an opening in the snow covering, a hole in the ice where the snow fell in when the stick, line into the hole was moved by a fish, beaver

ᒧᔥᑌᓈᑕᐦᐄᐯᐤ mushtenaatahiipeu
[vai]
S
s/he checks the fishnet that was set along the coast at low tide

ᔐᔥᒋᔑᒨ sheshchishimuu
[vai]
S
s/he/it (anim, ex seal, fish) puts its head out of the water onto the shore

ᐧᐄᐦᐧᑫᔦᒋᐸᔫ wiihkweyechipayuu
[vii]
S
it gets tangled in something bag-shaped and sheet-like (ex fish in net)


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Topics (2)
ᓇᒣᓴᒡ (N:122 S:65)
fish (related to fishing)

ᓅᑕᒣᓭᐧᐋᑲᓐᐦ (N:51 S:37)
fishing tools
