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Etymology edit

"at" (4th-person non-human object pronoun) + ".óow" ("to buy"); roughly translates to "something bought" or "something paid for" [1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): [ʔʌ̀tʰ.ʔúːw]

Noun edit

at.óow

  1. (verbal noun) sacred clan-owned item: denotes something that is owned by a Tlingit clan (or clans), and should not be used by those outside of said clans unless given special permissions. Items considered at.óow include physical (totem poles, houses, land) and more conceptual (songs, imagery, stories) items, in line with Tlingit culture.

References edit

  1. ^ Tlingit Dictionary (2021), X̱’unei Lance Twitchell