Origin:
Diminutive redupliucation form of x̣áam ‘crushed, smashed’.
Definition:
Crunchy, crumbly.
Example:
- x̣mx̣ɨ́m iwá ana kúuš k̓áłk̓ał ‘it is crunchy like crackers’;
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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).]