pigsa't :: cloud of smoke or dust or steam from... -- Mi'gmaq/Mi'kmaq Online

pigsa't

Part of Speech: verb animate intransitive

Pronunciation Guide: bik·saad

Translation: He/she/it makes a cloud of dust or smoke or steam

Meanings:

Example of word used in a sentence:

Text: Pigsa't na epsaqtejg, etugjel gmu'j etlamgleg saqpejaq.
Translation: That stove is smokey (smoking), maybe the wood that is burning is damp.
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Document References:

Pacifique Dictionary Manuscript, Page Image #689

Transcription:	Pigsāi, fumer, s’évaporer en séchant (pi.luit) et (139,1); paseg pigsag mimei (Jo. 350)
Transliteration:	Pigsai, smoke, to evaporate by drying (pi. Luit) and (139,1); pas’g pigsa’q mimei [smoke with oil] (jo. 350)
Source as entry:	pigsa'q mimei, oil is smoking

Rand's Micmac dictionary from phonographic word-lists - transcribed and alphabetically arranged, with a grammar and list of place-names by Jeremiah S. Clark, Page Image #177

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