miimánu

Owl, great horned owl, Bubo virginianus. ƛ̓áax̣ʷ pawá miimánu ‘they are all the owls’; qúyx̣ miimánu ‘snowy owl, Nyctea scandiaca‘ (“the white owl is the sacred one”); máamɨn miimánu ‘spotted owl, Strix occidentalis‘. [NW ámaš; Y mimanú; NP /sax̣lat´mo/ (Art Motanic equated miimánu and šax̣latámo); Aoki 1994:628, following Alan Marshall, defines sax̣latámo as ‘screech owl, Otus asio‘; NP palx̣óockin̓ /plx̣óckiˀns/ ‘snowy owl, Nyctea scandiaca‘ (?).]