at.óow

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Etymology

"at" (4th-person non-human object pronoun) + ".óow" ("to buy"); roughly translates to "something bought" or "something paid for" [1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

at.óow

  1. (verbal noun) sacred clan-owned item: denotes something that is owned by a Tlingit clan (or clans), and should not be used by those outside of said clans unless given special permissions. Items considered at.óow include physical (totem poles, houses, land) and more conceptual (songs, imagery, stories) items, in line with Tlingit culture.

References

  1. ^ Tlingit Dictionary (2021), X̱’unei Lance Twitchell
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