nihá:ti

Mohawk

Preposition

nihá:ti

1. partitive word for masculine plural
   • 1976, Josephine Horne, “Tharonhiawa:kon [The Holder of the Heavens]”, in Kanien’kéha Okara’shón:’a [Mohawk Stories], page 96:

     Wísk-niwáhsen nihá:ti Rotiiá:ner wahontkennísa’ katsénhakon

     Fifty chiefs gathered around the council fire

References

• David R. Maracle (1992) One Thousand Useful Mohawk Words, Madison, CT: Audio Forum, page 49