biláa

Crow

Etymology

From Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *wiráʔ, from Proto-Siouan *wirá•, from Proto-Siouan-Catawban *wira.

Noun

biláa

1. fire

Derived terms

• akbiláachia
• biláakisshi

References

• Lowie, Robert H. (1960) Crow Word Lists: Crow-English and English-Crow Vocabularies, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 63: “birϵ́, birá·”
• Reed, Jr., George (1974 September) Dictionary of the Crow Language‎^[1], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pages 39–40
• Say, Thomas (1823) “Vocabularies of Indian languages”, in Edwin James, editor, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and ’20, by Order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec’y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, volume II, Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, pages lxix–lxxxviii: “Fire, be¹-da¹”