Lightweight, thin. Of two dimensional objects such as paper, material (cloth). ɨwíix iwá tímaš ‘the paper is thin’; ɨwíix iwá síil ‘the material is thin’. Opposite is t̓ɨnú. [NP /hw´q̓is/; cf. NP /hw´q/ ‘miss, lose’.]
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