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You entered the Bridgeport dialect of Numu (Northern Paiute) and paiute in English

tukaba, n.

flour, bread

Derived from: tuka "eat", -ba "absolutive suffix"

Examples

  • honaga'yoo dukaba "flour" (Spoken by Madeline Stevens)
  • matsehe tukaba "French bread" (Spoken by Edith McCann)
  • pehaga'yoo tukaba "cake" (Spoken by Edith McCann)
  • tukaba "bread" (Spoken by Madeline Stevens)
  • tukaba bbassanna "dried bread" (Spoken by Madeline Stevens)
  • tukaba tumukwu "sell food (irrealis)" (Spoken by Edith McCann)
  • tukabbu "bread" (Spoken by Grace Dick)
  • tukabbu "bread" (Spoken by Edith McCann)
  • tukabbu "bread" (Spoken by Morris Jack)
  • tukabbu "food" (Spoken by Edith McCann)
  • tukabbu natunnu "beg for food" (Spoken by Edith McCann)
  • Oka passagguhoose yise tukabbumma o hubbu paa'amma yise o hanehoose.
    After it's dried, you sprinkle water over the flour.
    (Spoken by Madeline Stevens)
  • Paa'amma ookabaggway mooweahoose yise sukoo o pesa hane osoo a mooweahoose yise ka tu mimma yise sukoo tukabamma yise oo gguddenna ka toohooggweddadu ma'wo'neggwunay'ay.
    You sprinkle the flour with water, and when it gets good with your hand you have to clean the flour, brushing the black stuff away.
    (Spoken by Madeline Stevens)
  • O'o tukabbu.
    The bread is over there.
    (Spoken by Madeline Stevens)
  • E dooa tukaba tukakwu.
    I want my son to eat bread.
    (Spoken by Edith McCann)
  • E dooa tukabu ewa tukakwu.
    I want my son to eat more bread.
    (Spoken by Edith McCann)

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