pìwcìayána

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Taos[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From pìw- (“death, dead”) + cìa- (“talk”) + ? + -na.

Noun[edit]

pìwcìayána

  1. tale, story, "dump-telling" (translated thus because the dead were buried in dumps, i.e. refuse mounds in early times)

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