x̣mx̣ɨ́m

Origin:

Diminutive redupliucation form of x̣áam ‘crushed, smashed’.


Definition:

Crunchy, crumbly.


Example:

  1. x̣mx̣ɨ́m iwá ana kúuš k̓áłk̓ał ‘it is crunchy like crackers’;

See more:

čáx̣ɨmk ‘crumble’;

páx̣ɨmk ‘grind with mortar and pestle’;

wáx̣ɨmk ‘grind with a grinder’;

šapáwaax̣ɨmk ‘run a rock over something such as wheat to crush it’;

wapáx̣ɨmk ‘crumble with the hand’. Ablaut:

[Cf. NP qémqem /qmqm/ ‘sagebrush’; NP /x̣´m/ ‘be lost, disappear’ (bound).]