Canoe, boat, raft. iwax̣úuša wáwas ‘he is paddling his canoe’; ku kúuk iwiyánawiya wásaski wanapáyn ‘and then he arrived by boat along the river’; iyáytaša wásaski ‘he is floating along by raft’. [Y wásiis; NP /ly̓es/; S from earlier *wéseˀes wéše ‘ride’ + purpose nominalizer *-ˀeš.]
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