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’;
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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).]