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You entered the Burns dialect of Numu (Northern Paiute)

pia, n.

mother

Examples

  • Ume yaisi i pia miiu, "U yaduicai!"
    Then my mother said, "Talk to it!"
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • "Oo'no, 'Hayu usu e pia tenikwehe?' mii u tebinga, oonosu u nakapunni."
    "Then, 'How does she, your mother sing?' so ask it, and then listen to it."
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • "Yaisi su eezizi isu pia peno'o atazu eniwenne."
    "Then Eezizi, as for it, (it) will be saying something different."
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • Nemmi ka oo iwa'yuna owi nokadenna [m]i piano su i mu'a.
    We were out there, camping out there as a group with my mother and maternal grandmother.
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)
  • Yodziu'yainna mi pia miiu mi nitama, "Paano'o!" mii mi nima'i'yakwi yaisi tewau nemmi...
    (We) all would get up when our mother told us, "Get water!" so (she) would also tell us to do...
    (Spoken by Nepa Kennedy)