án

Definition:

Sun.


Examples:

itináytɨmš áw án ‘the sun has come up now’;

iwiyátk̓ukša án ‘the sun is getting straight up’;

itináynatšaykš án ‘the sun is going down’;

áw páwiyaˀilukayi ánna ‘he has made fire for the sun now (said of a sundog)’;

áwna iwináanakʷša án ‘now the sun is leaving us (said when getting delayed)’;

áana čáw šíin pánkaštkɨn ánna ‘oh, nobody has tied up the sun (said when running behind schedule)’;

čáw šíin pánkaštkɨnx̣a ánna áwna iwiláalakʷša nɨknínɨm ‘nobody ties up the sun (you can’t stop time), the time is leaving us now’;


See more:

ánɨm ‘winter’;

anwíč ‘spend winter’;

anwíčt ‘year’;

anwím ‘last year, next year’;

álxayx ‘moon’;

anpamá ‘clock, watch’.

[Y áan; NP /hísemtuks/ ‘sun, moon’; /wyetenet(u)/ ‘sun’ < ‘traveler’ (occurs mostly only in names).]