Marestail:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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Hippuris vulgaris
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goose grass
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dets'en baabe'
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baabe
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79
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Lit. 'goose's food'
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Hippuris vulgaris
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ch'edot'aagge baabe'
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Hippuris vulgaris
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marestail
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tlaałtl'ughe
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tl'uh
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616
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May also apply to white-flowered variety of Epilobium angustifolium. Etymology not obtained
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Equisetum sp.
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aquatic horsetail
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Hippuris vulgaris
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Moss:
| Scientific Name
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Related Terms
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Koyukon Name
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Koyukon Root
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KAD Page
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Notes on Translation
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Use Information
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moss
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nen'
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naan'1
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435
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This noun is not present in most of Koyukon outside of the Upper dialect. Tl'otl is more common for moss.
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moss
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tl'otl
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tl'otl1
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611
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Generic term
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diaper, toilet material, Pampers, breech cloth for infants
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k'etl'odle'
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tl'otl1
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611
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"Perhaps the term would have applied first to the species of white moss used for this purpose…" Jetté
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Jones - "In the past, moss was used as diaper material in cradles."
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any aquatic or floating moss
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dlot
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dlot1
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156
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See entry under algae
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Sphagnum sp.
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a red moss
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nen' tseege'
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tseek
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625
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Lit. 'red ground'
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Nelson - Used for log cabin chinking and insulation in cabin roofs.
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Sphagnum sp.
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naan'1
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435
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Lit. 'red moss'
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Sphagnum sp.
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tl'otl kk'es
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tl'otl1
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611
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a white moss, used as a wick
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semtl ggʉyh
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ggʉyh2
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225
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Lit. 'gray moss'
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Sullivan - Explains use as a wick in the "stone dish" lamp called lo'on tlok.
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metl::semetl
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99
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Lit. 'gray moss'
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Jetté - "Formerly used as a wick for the native lamp, which consisted of a small recipient filled with oil: the dried white moss was placed on edge, and when soaked with oil, was lighted. It gave a rather smoky and ill-fummed flame, but sufficient for ordinary purpose, such as cooking, etc."
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Lycopodium sp.
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club moss
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deeltsaa' tlee'ole'
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tsaa'1
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617
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Lit. 'mouse's pillow'
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Jetté - "A creeping cryptogamous plant, resembling a spruce bough, growing on the ground, having a long sarmentose stem, along which small branches shoot upwards, and terminate in a club-like cluster of reproductive organs."
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Lycopodium sp.
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ggʉh tlaatleele'
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ggʉh1
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223
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Lit. 'rabbit's axe'; 'baby tooth'
Club moss, the rabbit's axe, from a fancied resemblance of the spiked stem to an axe. --Jetté
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Story on pg. 223 referring to baby's first front tooth.
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cones of a club moss
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k'ekoodle' tlee'oł
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oł1
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64
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Lit. 'feather pillow'
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dry lake moss
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taahnaane'
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naan'1
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435
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Jones - "Lake moss from dry lakes was used for insulation on roofs and as chinking material for log cabins."
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lake moss
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taahtl'odle'
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tl'otl1
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611
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Lit. 'underwater moss'
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Jones - "Lake moss is used for roof insulation. It is collected by cutting patches of it on a dry lake and rolling the patches up."
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moss hummock
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naaseneł
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neł1::seneł
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466
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a water moss
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taah nelʉgh
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lʉgh2
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426
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Lit. 'underwater'
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tl'otltseł
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tl'otl1
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611
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Lit. 'moist moss'
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Moss used as diaper material
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thick growth of reddish-brown moss on lakes
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dee'aadle
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aatl1
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28
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Sphagnum sp.
Lycopodium sp.
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