at.óow

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Tlingit

[edit]
A user suggests that this Tlingit entry be cleaned up.
Please see the discussion on Requests for cleanup(+) for more information and remove this template after the problem has been dealt with.

Etymology

[edit]

"at" (4th-person non-human object pronoun) + ".óow" ("to buy"); roughly translates to "something bought" or "something paid for" [1]

Pronunciation

[edit]

IPA(key): [ʔʌ̀tʰ.ʔúːw]

Noun

[edit]

at.óow

  1. (verbal noun) sacred clan-owned item: denotes something that is owned by a Tlingit clan (or clans), and should not be used by those outside of said clans unless given special permissions. Items considered at.óow include physical (totem poles, houses, land) and more conceptual (songs, imagery, stories) items, in line with Tlingit culture.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Tlingit Dictionary (2021), X̱’unei Lance Twitchell