Person. NE This word is used at Warm Springs and Yakima in a sacred longhouse context. See tanán. [Cf. NP /netítelwit/ ‘human being (looking forward from the perspective of the myth age)’; Aoki 1994:479 relates to Chinookan, e.g., Wishram nadidanwit.]
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