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You entered the Burns dialect of Numu (Northern Paiute)

ma'na'wi, v.

do

Other pronunciations

manakwi, managgwi (Bridgeport), managgwi (Mono Lake), managgwi (Walker River)

Examples

  • Uu ma'na'wi, ka oo'no u yaduicaide kwa'ni tia'a.
    Thus it continues to do, as if (your're) talking to it.
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • Oono me i pia mii ume, "oo ti nabo'anna, ususu...ti...ka me inaku su tuameganna oo uu manakwi.
    And then (our) my mother said (of them?), "There, (it) doesn't like us, because it has a fawn around here, it behaves like that."
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • "A piabe mu ma'na'wi ma'no" mii tia'a.
    "the female thusly did right there(/then?)," so (she) said.
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)