itwêwina Plains Cree dictionary

napw-

Morph-R
1. fold, bend, hold together; double; crooked WMDD
napwên
NA-1 🧑🏽 like: pahkwêsikan, asikan 📖
Word components: napwên-
1. frying pan, skillet CW
2. A frying pan MD
3. a frying pan. (Plains). alt. lapewel (Northern) AECD
4. seseskihkwân (archaic Cree) AECD
napwên-

Morph-NA-1
1. frying pan [French borrowing: “la poele”] WMDD
napwahêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: napw-
, ah-
1. s/he puts s.o. together CW AECD
napwênis
NA-1 🧑🏽 like: pahkwêsikan, asikan 📖
Word components: napwên-
, -is
1. little frying pan CW
napwastâw
VTI-2 🧑🏽➡️💧 like: kisihtâw 📖
Word components: napw-
, astâ-
( ast-
, -â(3) )
1. s/he puts s.t. together CW
2. s/he puts two things together AECD
napwêkinam
VTI-1 🧑🏽➡️💧 like: nâtam 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -n(1)
1. s/he folds s.t. in half, s/he folds s.t. double CW
2. s/he folds it AECD
napwêkinêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -n(1)
1. s/he folds s.o. in half, s/he folds s.o. double CW
2. s/he folds it or them AECD
napwahpison
NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpiso ( -ahpiT , -o
) , -n(3)
1. hobble CW
napwahpisow
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpiso ( -ahpiT , -o
)
1. s/he is hobbled CW
napwahpitam
VTI-1 🧑🏽➡️💧 like: nâtam 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpit
1. s/he ties s.t. together CW
2. s/he ties two things together AECD
napwahpitêw
VTA-4 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: nakatêw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpiT
1. s/he hobbles s.o. (e.g. a horse) CW
2. s/he ties s.o. together CW
3. s/he ties it or them together AECD
napwêkiskam
VTI-1 🧑🏽➡️💧 like: nâtam 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -sk(1)
1. s/he tramples s.t. up CW
2. s/he flattens s.t. CW
napwêkinikêw
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -n(1) , -ikê(1)
1. s/he folds things double, s/he folds things in half CW
2. s/he folds things AECD
napwêkipayiw

VII-2v 💧➡️ like: mihkwâw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -paýi
1. it folds over (automatically), it doubles, it comes together CW
napwêkipitam
VTI-1 🧑🏽➡️💧 like: nâtam 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -pit
1. s/he folds s.t. flat CW
napwêkipitêw
VTA-4 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: nakatêw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -piT
1. s/he folds s.o. flat CW
napwahpicikan
NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpit , -ikan
1. lash, thing for tying together CW
2. something used to tie things together AECD
3. a lash AECD
napwahpicikêw
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpit , -ikê(1)
1. s/he ties things together CW AECD
napwahpisiwêw
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpiT , -iwê
1. s/he hobbles horses, s/he ties people together CW
2. s/he ties two people together AECD
napwahpisowin
NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: napw-
, -ahpiso ( -ahpiT , -o
) , -win
1. hobble, hobbling CW
napwêkiskawêw
VTA-2 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: nitonawêw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -skaw(1)
1. s/he tramples s.o. up CW
2. s/he flattens s.o. CW
napwêkinikâsow
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: napw-
, -êk-
, -n(1) , -ikâso
1. it is folded together, it is folded double, it is stacked in half CW
napotw-

Morph-R
1. ?? knock-kneed [cf. /napw-/] WMDD
wîcihêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: wît-
, -h
1. s/he helps s.o., s/he assists s.o. CW
2. s/he provides welfare to s.o. CW
3. s/he assists s.o. in childbirth, s/he serves as a midwife to s.o. CW
4. He helps him MD
5. He aids him MD
6. They help him MD
7. s/he assists her/him or them AECD
8. s/he participates AECD
ayâwêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: ayâw-
1. s/he has s.o., s/he owns s.o. CW
2. she is pregnant with s.o., she gives birth to s.o. CW
3. s/he keeps s.o., s/he looks after s.o. CW
4. He has or owns something animate MD
5. s/he has them AECD
6. s/he owns them AECD
nôh
1. (you) suckle him/her now, (you) nurse him/her now, (you) breastfeed him/her now 🤖CW
2. (you) allow him/her to suck now 🤖CW
3. (you) breastfeed him/her now 🤖AECD 🤖MD
4. (you) nurse him/her now 🤖AECD
5. Breastfeed him MD
form of nôhêw
nôhêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: nôh-
1. she suckles s.o., she nurses s.o., she breastfeeds s.o. CW
2. she allows s.o. to suck CW
3. She breastfeeds him AECD MD
4. she nurses her/him AECD
niciwâmiskwêm
NDA-1 👤🧑🏽 like: mitâs (-tâs-), mohpan (-ohpan-) 📖
Word components: {ni-} , -ciwâm-
, iskwêw-
, -im(1)
1. my female parallel cousin CW
2. wife of my male cross-cousin CW
3. my father's brother's daughter, my mother's sister's daughter [used by a female speaker only] CW
nôhcâwîs
NDA-1 👤🧑🏽 like: mitâs (-tâs-), mohpan (-ohpan-) 📖
Word components: {n-} , -ohtâwiy-
, -is
1. my uncle, my parallel uncle CW
2. my father's brother, my paternal uncle CW
3. my mother's sister's husband CW
4. my stepfather CW
5. my godfather CW
6. my "dear father" CW
7. My uncle MD
8. my father's brother or my paternal uncle. Var. nôhkomis, nipâpâsis AECD
kakêskimêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: kakêsk-
, -m(1)
1. s/he lectures s.o., s/he counsels s.o., s/he gives s.o. advice CW
2. s/he preaches to s.o. CW
3. He keeps giving him or them advice MD
4. He gives advice to him or them MD
5. s/he gives her/him advice AECD
nôniw
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: nôn-
, -i
1. s/he is nursing, s/he is breastfeeding, s/he sucks at the breast, s/he suckles CW
2. He breastfeeds from the mother MD
3. s/he suckles AECD
nikâwiy
NDA-2 👤🧑🏽 like: mitihtikosiy, maskasiy 📖
Word components: {ni-} , -kâwiy-
1. my mother CW MD
2. my mother's sister CW
3. my mother. Var. nimâmâ AECD
wîsta
PrA like: awa
Word components: {w-}(2) , -îst-
, {-a}(1)
1. he, too CW
2. she, too CW
3. he, by contrast CW
4. she, by contrast CW
5. he himself CW
6. she herself CW
7. him, too CW MD
8. her, too CW
9. He also MD
nîtim
NDA-3 👤🧑🏽 like: ninîkihik(w), nîtim(w) 📖
Word components: {n-} , -îtimw-
1. [male speaker:] daughter of my father's sister or daughter of my mother's brother CW
2. my sister-in-law (i.e. wife of male sibling or parallel cousin) CW
mâmawapiwin
NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: mâmaw-
, api-
( ap-
, -i(3) ) , -win
1. meeting, business meeting CW
2. gathering, assembly CW
3. an organized gathering, meeting or assembly, i.e.: a business meeting AECD
nôhêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: nôh-
1. she suckles s.o., she nurses s.o., she breastfeeds s.o. CW
2. she allows s.o. to suck CW
3. She breastfeeds him AECD MD
4. she nurses her/him AECD
mâtinamâkan

NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: mâtin-
( mât-(2)
, -n(1) ) , -amaw , -ikan
1. chapter CW
piskihtasinahikan

NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: piskiht-
, -asinah ( -asin-
, -ah(1) ) , -ikan
1. verse CW
2. chapter CW
okihcitâwiskwêwikamik

NI-3 💧 like: pahkêkin(w), askêkin(w) 📖
Word components: okihcitâw-
, iskwêw-
, -kamikw
1. women warriors' lodge, lodge of clan mothers CW
-nâtokê

Morph-aff
1. -nâ-tokê; Local person; TA/AI Independent dubitative MC
mwayês
IPC ⚡️ like: anohc 📖
Word components: (pâ)mwayês
1. just before, sooner than CW
2. previously CW
3. Before or ere. (Plains). alt. namic (Northern) AECD
paminêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: pam-
, -n(1)
1. s/he tends to s.o., s/he handles s.o. CW
2. s/he fosters s.o., s/he keeps s.o. (e.g. child), s/he supports s.o., s/he looks after s.o. CW
3. s/he guides s.o. CW
4. s/he is in service to s.o. CW
5. s/he attends s.o. in childbirth, s/he serves as midwife to s.o. CW
6. He takes care of him MD
7. He supports him MD
8. s/he looks after her/him AECD
-îtisân

N Naming word
1. My family member MD
2. A blood relation MD
3. Brother or sister MD
4. A brother MD
5. A sister MD
6. His blood relatives MD
niciwâmiskwêw
NDA-2 👤🧑🏽 like: mitihtikosiy, maskasiy 📖
Word components: {ni-} , -ciwâm-
, iskwêw-
1. my female parallel cousin CW
2. my father's brother's daughter, my mother's sister's daughter [used by a female speaker only] CW
nôhkomis
NDA-1 👤🧑🏽 like: mitâs (-tâs-), mohpan (-ohpan-) 📖
Word components: {n-} , -ohkomis-
1. my uncle, my parallel uncle CW
2. my father's brother, my paternal uncle CW
3. my mother's sister's husband CW
4. my father's brother or my paternal uncle, Var. nipâpâsis, nôhcâwîs AECD
5. my stepfather (Northern) AECD
nihtâwikihâwasowin

NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: nihtâw-
, -iki , -h
, -âwaso
, -win
1. childbearing, giving birth CW
mosci-iskwêw
NA-2 🧑🏽 like: kihc-ôkiniy, ayapiy 📖
Word components: most-
, -i(1) , iskwêw-
1. simply a woman, an ordinary woman (e.g. in assisting a woman in childbirth, not formally accredited as midwife or obstetrician) CW
nihtâwikihêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: nihtâw-
, -iki , -h
1. she gives birth to s.o., s/he aids s.o.'s birth CW
2. she gives birth AECD
pôni-otawâsimisiw
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: pôn-
, -i
, o(t)-(1) , awâsis-
, -im(1) , -i(2)
1. she ceases giving birth, she reaches the end of childbearing, s/he experiences menopause CW
kakêsk-

Morph-R
1. lecture, counsel [cf. /kisk-/; ?? initial mutation: /kisk-/ > kakêsk-/] WMDD
pamihisow
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: pam-
, -h
, -iso
1. s/he looks after him/herself, s/he tends to him/herself, s/he waits on him/herself, s/he supports him/herself, s/he is self-reliant CW
2. she attends herself in childbirth, she serves as her own midwife CW
mâmawi-natomêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: mâmaw-
, -i(1) , natw-
, -m(1)
1. s/he calls s.o. together for an assembly, s/he calls s.o. together for a gathering, s/he calls s.o. together for a meeting CW
2. s/he calls them together for the assembly, gathering, meeting AECD
nôniskiw
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: nôn-
, -i
, -ski(1) ( -sk(3) , -i(3) )
1. s/he is constantly sucking CW
2. He is constantly breastfeeding MD
pamihêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: pam-
, -h
1. s/he takes care of s.o., s/he looks after s.o., s/he helps s.o., s/he gives aid to s.o., s/he tends to s.o., s/he serves s.o. CW
2. s/he attends s.o. (in childbirth), s/he serves s.o. as a midwife, s/he ministers to s.o. CW
3. s/he guides s.o. (e.g. sleigh) CW
4. s/he drives s.o. (e.g. horse, car) CW
5. He serves him AECD MD
6. He attends to him AECD MD
7. s/he ministers to her/him or them AECD
nôkohâwasowin

NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: nôkw-
, -h
, -âwaso
, -win
1. childbirth, giving birth, parturition CW
nicâhkosê!

NDA-1 👤🧑🏽 like: mitâs (-tâs-), mohpan (-ohpan-) 📖
Word components: {ni-} , -câhkos- , {-ê}(7)
1. female cross-cousin! CW
2. sister-in-law! [used by female speaker only] CW
osikosâhkômêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: o-(1) , -sikos-
, -âhkôm
1. s/he has s.o. as father's sister, s/he calls s.o. as father's sister CW
2. s/he has s.o. as his/her mother's brother's wife CW
wîcêwâkanimêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: wîcêw- , -âkan(1)
, -i
, -m(2)
1. s/he has s.o. as partner, s/he is in partnership with s.o. CW
2. s/he is partners or friends with her/him AECD
mawapi-

Morph-VAI
1. visit [?? < /maw-/ + api-] WMDD
nimâmâsis

NDA-1 👤🧑🏽 like: mitâs (-tâs-), mohpan (-ohpan-) 📖
Word components: {ni-} , -mâmâ- , -isis
1. my aunt, my maternal aunt, my mother's sister CW
2. my paternal uncle's wife CW
3. my mother's sister or my maternal aunt AECD
nôn-

Morph-R
1. suckle, breastfeed WMDD
omahkahkohkêsis

NA-1 🧑🏽 like: pahkwêsikan, asikan 📖
Word components: o-(2) , mahkahkw-
( mahk-** , -ahkw ) , -ihkê ( -ihk-
, -ê(2) ) , -w(2) , -isis
1. apprentice cooper CW
ohcâwîsimâw
NA-2 🧑🏽 like: kihc-ôkiniy, ayapiy 📖
Word components: -ohtâwiy-
, -is , -imâw ( -i(2)
, -m(2) , {-â}(6) , {-w}(3) )
1. uncle CW
2. father's brother, mother's sister's husband CW
nisisê!

NDA-1 👤🧑🏽 like: mitâs (-tâs-), mohpan (-ohpan-) 📖
Word components: {ni-} , -sis-
, {-ê}(7)
1. uncle!, cross-uncle! CW
2. mother's brother!, father's sister's husband! CW
3. father-in-law! CW
pôni-nôhêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: pôn-
, -i
, nôh-
1. she stops nursing s.o. CW MD
2. s/he stops breastfeeding s.o., she weans s.o. CW
3. She weans him MD
nîtisâniskwêw
NDA-2 👤🧑🏽 like: mitihtikosiy, maskasiy 📖
Word components: {n-} , -îtisân-
, iskwêw-
1. my sister [to a female speaker] CW
2. Sisters say "my sister" AECD
mamâhcikwahpisowin

NI-1 💧 like: cîmân, astotin 📖
Word components: {Ca-}
, mâhcikw-
, -ahpiT , -o
, -win
1. hobble CW
2. band, binder CW
mâmawêyas
IPC ⚡️ like: anohc
Word components: mâmaw-
( -êyas(k) )
1. where all are assembled CW
2. the most, above all, beyond the rest CW
3. Altogether MD
4. As a group MD
yahâ
IPJ like: hay hay
Word components: yahâ
1. oh my!, aha!, serves you right! CW
nanâtohkwâhkômêw
VTA-1 🧑🏽➡️🧑🏽 like: wîcihêw 📖
Word components: nanâtohkw- , -âhkôm
1. s/he has s.o. as a diverse kin group, s/he has (them as) all kinds of relatives CW
2. her/his relatives are very diverse AECD
nâcinêhikêw
VAI-1 🧑🏽➡️ like: nipâw 📖
Word components: nât-
, -inêh(1) ( -inê-(2) , -ah(1) ) , -ikê(1)
1. s/he gets spiritual help, assistance or counselling (from s.o.) by offering appropriate gifts or payment, s/he makes a request for medicine CW
2. s/he makes a request for medicine AECD
sâsêskihkwân
NA-1 🧑🏽 like: pahkwêsikan, asikan 📖
Word components: sâs-
, -êskihkw-
, -ê(2) , -n(3)
1. frying pan CW
2. a frying pan. (archaic Cree). alt. lapewel (Northern), napwen (Plains) AECD

	Stem
No ownership	mosci-iskwêw-
whose / whom something belongs to	-mosci-iskwêm-

	Stem
No ownership	ohcâwîsimâw-
whose / whom something belongs to	NONE

tânisi!