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The Dhegiha languages retain ska from *ska (LCPA skah) in final position while Ioway-Otoe converts it to ske (LCPA sk ay).
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(E-nah-tuh-oo-ne-skah-low-tsuh.) When an individual is bitten by a poisonous serpent, if it be on any of the extremities, immediately tie a bandage or ligature around the limb, between the wound and the body, this will greatly retard the passage into the system.
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-- (Tsu-ne-nu-sup-huh-skah.) The prevalence of this filthy disease among mankind, is another proof among the many that might be adduced, that it is the interest of mankind to be virtuous, if they would be happy, and he that would be healthy must be temperate.
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RHEUMATISM -- (Tsi-tah-nah-ler-la-skah.) This very painful disease, in which the poor sufferer drags out a miserable and wretched existence, is quite frequent in the western country.
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"Our people lived then on the east bank of the Mississippi, a little south of where Imnejah-skah, or White Cliff (St. Paul, Minnesota), now stands.
Indian Boyhood 1902
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"Our people lived then on the east bank of the Mississippi, a little south of where Imnejah-skah, or White Cliff (St. Paul, Minnesota), now stands.
Indian Boyhood Charles Alexander Eastman 1898
chained_bear commented on the word skah
"The tip of the ear cut off slantwise. 'A mark in the ear of a sheep' (Cregeen). Properly skar, a gash, nick or notch."
—W. Walter Gill, Manx Dialect Words and Phrases, 1934
See also agg.
April 23, 2009