Sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus. mimákni iwá wílaps ku áx̣ʷay iwá čikúuk wánapa ‘the sturgeon is from of old and is still in the river today’; aw kú wílapsin páwinanawana ‘then a sturgeon went up to him’; aw kú páˀɨnna yáamašin wílapsna ‘then the deer said to the sturgeon’; ana mún íkuuk áwɨnpša túna wílapsna ‘whenever today you will get a sturgeon’. [NE variously qílax̣ ~ **x̣ílax̣; NP /qileq/.]
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