pìwcìayána

Taos

Etymology

From pìw- (“death, dead”) + cìa- (“talk”) + ? + -na

Noun

pìwcìayána

  1. tale, story, "dump-telling" (translated thus because the dead were buried in dumps, i.e. refuse mounds in early times)

Synonyms

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