nüümü
noun Paiute, Indian person, human, body.
Audio
Notes
Audio Source: Elicitation of words and phrases; includes people, pronouns, and simple sentences, LA 31.032, in "The Sydney M. Lamb collection of Mono sound recordings", Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/18719.
Sentences
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"Hani' mei-shi üü nüümü-neika ma-gia-ti" mii 'itaw̃a-gü-ti.
"Why are you giving it to those people?" he said for me.
Nüü-dei huba-sawa-si ono'oho nüü-düa nüümü-gumasaa'-aa tü-hani-pü.
I cooked stew and I also made Indian bread.
Kütsi-ki-tei-ti nüümü-uu.
Those people are getting crowded.
I-bia-uu i-nawa-uu naw̃indu-su nüümü.
Both my mom and my dad were Paiute.