Brook, ravine, canyon. Also x̣ɨwɨ́š. x̣ɨwúšpa pawá Wawatáwyama ‘the antelope are in a canyon’. [NP /s´qan/ ~ /sqan/; x̣ɨwúš likely related sound symbolically to qɨwíił ‘open, clear’; q̓mɨ́ł ‘cliff’; q̓míił ‘crevice’; ‘brook, ravine, canyon’.]
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