taláa

Crow

Etymology

From Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *cará•, from Proto-Siouan *sará•.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tanâː/, [tə̀ɾâː]

Noun

taláa

1. grease, oil
2. gasoline, petrol

Derived terms

• alataláaiaschiluu
• taláachia
• taláashiili
• taláashpita

 

References

• Lowie, Robert H. (1960) Crow Word Lists: Crow-English and English-Crow Vocabularies, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, page 160: “tará·; tarϵ́”
• Reed, Jr., George (1974 September) Dictionary of the Crow Language‎^[1], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pages 78–79