Animate Colours in Woodland Cree

Animate, describing the colour of a living thing. For example: The wolf is white – mahihkan wāpiskisiw or wāpiskisiw mahihkan 

For Inanimate Colours go here ⇒


black – kaskitīsiw


blue – sīpihkosiw


brown – wīskwastīwinākosiw


green – askihtakosiw


grey – wāpitīwinākosiw / kaskāpahtīwinākosiw


orange – atōspīwinākosiw


pink – wāpikwanīwinākosīw


purple – sīpihkomiskosiw


red – mithkosiw / miskosiw


white – wāpiskisiw


yellow – osāwisiw


 

 

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