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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2006-09-07 09:06 am

My pretty Pawnee

The Pawnee word for "owl" is itkas-kiriru, lit. "sleeper-trembling". Add on the feminine prefix (c-) and the diminutive suffix (-ki) and you get citkaskirirki "little she-owl".

[identity profile] snowy-owlet.livejournal.com 2006-09-07 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
How lovely! There is a poem in that.