ᓂᑲᒧᐤ nikamow
(verb, animate intransitive)
s/he sings
Examples
ᓂᔮᓈᓀᐤ ᐁ ᐃᔅᐸᓕᒃ ᐁ ᑭᔐᐹᔮᒃ ᓀᔥᑕ ᐁ ᐅᑖᑯᔑᐦᒃ ᔖᑭᑕᐦᑦ ᐁ ᐃᔅᐸᓕᒃ, ᒥᓯᐌ ᐁ ᐃᑕᔑᒋᒃ ᒫᒪᐤ ᑮ ᐃᐦᑖᐗᒃ ᐁ ᓂᑲᒧᒋᒃ᙮
At eight o'clock in the morning and in the evening at night o'clock, everybody was there together singing.
Herbert McLeod - The Deborah James Corpus [1980]
ᐊᐗ ᒫᑲ ᐐᓚ ᑭᔐᓕᓕᐤ ᐁᓕᑯᐦᒄ ᓂᑲᒧᐤ, ᐁ ᒥᑌᐎ ᓂᑲᒧᑦ ᐲᐦᒋ ᐐᑭᐦᒃ ᐁ ᐊᐱᑦ᙮
As for this old man, he sang with great effort. He sang a conjuring song while sitting in his home.
Harvey Smallboy - Cree Notes & Texts collected by Truman Michelson [1935]
4 results found
Some words starting with 'nikamow'
a songbook
1
a song
2
(biblical) a psalm
a bag in which the mythical trickster, Wîsahkecâhkw, purports to be gathering songs as part of his ruse to kill waterfowl