ᐱᓓᓯᐤ pilesiw
(noun, animate)
Examples
ᑫᑲ ᐱᓓᓯᐗᒃ ᐹᐱᓛᐗᒃ᙮
Finally the birds arrive.
Patrick Stephen - Cree Notes & Texts collected by Truman Michelson [1936]
Etymology
from Old Cree *pirêsiwa, cognate of Anishinabe binesi and Meskwaki *penêsiwa (cf. "penêsiwaya, raptor skin," Goddard & Thomason, 2014), from Proto-Algonquian *perêhsiwa