Appaloosa horse. máamɨn k̓úsi ‘Mormon horse’; máamɨn miimánu ‘spotted owl, Strix occidentalis‘. [NP /máamin/; probably from Mormon (Bruce Rigsby: “That’s what several old men told me in Lapwai in summer, 1962.”).]
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