chihpapúushi
Crow
Etymology
chihpá (“prairie dog”) + púushi (“striped”)
Noun
chihpapúushi
- chipmunk
References
- Lowie, Robert H. (1960) Crow Word Lists: Crow-English and English-Crow Vocabularies, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 164: “tsipapú·c”
- Reed, Jr., George (September 1974) Dictionary of the Crow Language, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pages 44, 74