ᓂᑦ ᐊᔭᒥᐦᑖᓐ ᑎᐱᓚᐌ ᓂᑌᐦᐃᔾ; ᓂᑦ ᐊᐦᒑᐦᒄ ᓀᔥᑕ ᓲᐦᑲ ᓈᓇᑕᐌᓕᐦᒋᑫᐤ᙮ I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Psalm 77:6 [1875]
ᒧᔐ ᑮᔑᒄ ᐃᔥᐱᒥᐦᒃ ᑭ ᑭᔥᑎᓰᐎᓇ ᐙᐸᐦᑎᓕᐌᒪᑲᓐ ᐁᔅᐱᐦᑕᔅᑲᒥᑳᒃ; ᑖᐱᔅᑰᒡ ᐁ ᑮᔑᑳᒃ ᓀᔥᑕ ᐁ ᑎᐱᔅᑳᒃ ᓲᐦᑲ ᐐᐦᑕᒨᒪᑲᓐ ᑭ ᓲᐦᑳᑎᓰᐎᓐ᙮ The sky above displays your greatness throughout the earth; both day and night it tells fully of your might. Horden - Psalms & Hymns [1887]
2
(interjection)
used to encourage someone to try harder or to put more effort into something
3
surely
Examples
ᓲᐦᑲ ᐁᑐᑴ ᐙ ᓈᒋᐸᐦᐃᑯᓯᐙᑴ, ᐃᑗᐤ᙮ They must surely want to be fetched. Harvey Smallboy - Cree Notes & Texts collected by Truman Michelson [1935]
4
(idiom)
môla sôhka hardly, barely
Examples
ᐁᑯ ᒫᑲ ᐊᓄᐦᒡ ᒨᓚ ᓲᐦᑲ ᑭ ᐯᐦᑌᓐ ᐊᐌᓂᐦᑳᓐ ᐆᒪ ᑭᒋ ᑑᑕᐦᒃ᙮ But now you hardly hear that someone will do this. Herbert McLeod - The Deborah James Corpus [1980]
ᒨᓚ ᓲᐦᑲ ᑮ ᒥᓗ ᑑᑖᑯᐗᒃ ᐁ ᑕᐦᑳᔮᒃ ᐅᐦᒋ᙮ They hardly benefitted from it when it was cold. Patrick Stephen - Cree Notes & Texts collected by Truman Michelson [1936]
