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Western Abenaki Dictionary

Abenaki Vocabulary Part 1: w/Ambrose Obomsawin and Gordon Day

Transcript:
1. GD: T8ni kd'eliwitamen a pea aln8baiwi? (How do you call it "a pea" in Abenaki?)
AO: Liwitamen pis (It is called/named pis)

2. GD: A pig?
AO: Liwihl8 piks (s/he is called piks)

3. GD: A ground nut?
AO: Liwihl8 pen

4. GD: A box?
AO: Liwitamen paks

5. GD: A lung?
AO: Liwihl8 pan

6. GD: Paul?
AO: Liwihl8 Pol

7. GD: The winter?
AO: Liwitamen pon

8. GD: A boat?
AO: Liwitamen pots

9. GD: A pump?
AO: Liwitamen p8mp

10. GD: It peals?
AO: Nd'idam pkwan (I say pkwan)

11. GD: Wait?
AO: nd'idam pla

12. GD: T8ni kd'eliwitamen tea?
AO: Liwitamen ti

13. GD: And?
AO: Nd'idam ta

14. GD: It is cold?
AO: Nd'idam tka

15. GD: Cheese?
AO: Liwihl8 chiz

16. GD: A grasshopper?
AO: Liwihl8 ch8ls

17. GD: A playing card?
AO: Liwihl8 tlap

18. GD: The steel trap?
AO: Liwihl8 tlaps

19. GD: My tea?
AO: nd'eliwitamen n'tin

20. GD: Land?
AO: nd'idam ki

21. GD: On land?
AO: Nd'idam kik

22. GD: A train?
AO: Liwitamen kaaz

23. GD: A cow?
AO: Liwihl8 kaoz

24. GD: A goat?
AO: Liwihl8 kots

25. GD: A kettle?
AO: Liwihl8 kokw

26. GD: A porcupine or hedgehog?
AO: Liwihl8 k8kw

27. GD: A cedar tree?
AO: Liwihl8 k8ksk

28. GD: A piture?
AO: Nd'idam kwat

29. GD: Wide?
AO: Nd'idam kaska

30. My leg?
AO: Liwitamen n'k8t





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