kan

something incomprehensible but wonderful


ʞ

(transcription, obsolete) A tenuis [k]; now ⟨k⟩.


ʇ

(transcription, obsolete) A tenuis [t]; now ⟨t⟩.


khąğí

From Proto-Mississippi-Valley *hká•ɣi, from Proto-Siouan *hká•xi.


mní

Mní etáŋ mak’ú wo.

The importance of water is significant. In the beginning, the water—Mni—was pure, part of the land, and therefore part of the people.

2012, Gwen Westerman, Bruce White, Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota, page 19:


sáta

wooden rack on which meat is hung to dry


winkta

a two-spirit; a male-bodied person who has a feminine or third-gender/bigender gender role


wíyaskabye

a type of glue made from boiled buffalo hooves


chąʾóthina

a type of little spirit that lives in a tree


maxpíya

Cognate with Assiniboine maȟpíya, Lakota maȟpíya.


máza

From Proto-Dakota *máza, from Proto-Mississippi Valley *mą́•ze, from Proto-Siouan *awą́•se.


ité

face (front of a person's or animal's head)


chąną́kpa

a type of edible mushroom that grows on trees


wąbdí

Cognate with Lakota waŋblí, Assiniboine wamní.


hokšídchekpabdu

powdery substance inside a puffball (usually applied to a newborn's navel when the umbilical cord is cut)


hokšína

From hokší (“child”) + -na (“diminutive suffix, forms terms of endearment”).
Cognate with Lakota hokšíla (“boy, young man”).


óząthųpi

curtained-off area inside a tipi, where one can take a shower or bathe or change clothes


chesdí

defecate, have a bowl movement, empty one's bowels


tʾekhó

put a death-curse on someone, wish someone to die


makáʾigdi

skunk oil (used to treat nasal congestion and cough)


paʾų́kce

have sex so vigorously that the woman breaks wind


yapʾó

exhale steam, breathe out fog (as on a cold day)


wichéwąka

bedtime (originally, the time when everyone in a camp would go to sleep)


onápha

flee to someone or somewhere for protection


yuhómni

drill a well by having a mule go round and round in a circle


pašʾį́šʾį

sexually stimulate a woman by fondling her crotch


khéya

turtle (land or marine reptile with a shell)


wí

sun (star around which the Earth revolves)


chatkú

the place of honor inside a dwelling (the area opposite the doorway)


máǧa

field, garden (any cultivated patch of land)


žąžą́na

scattered, far apart (like trees in a clearing)


oʾákąke

chair, stool, bench (something to sit on)


iwóžu

a hand tool for planting seed, consisting of a digging tool with a box for seed attached


iyúxpaxpasʾe

carelessly, sloppily, in a slipshod manner


akíxʾą

starve (suffer from lack of nourishment)


xmų́ǧa

bewitch someone, cast a spell on someone


xemáni

train (vehicle that travels on a railroad)


ophá

ride (in a vehicle, such as a train, car, wagon, etc.)


sįté

From Proto-Dakota *sįté, from Proto-Mississippi-Valley: *sį́•te, from Proto-Siouan *(i-)sį́•te.


yuʾíxa

make someone laugh by doing something funny


yaʾíxa

make someone laugh by saying something funny


Oceti Šakowiŋ

the Great Sioux Nation or Seven Council Fires, a confederacy of seven Sioux-speaking peoples in existence at the time of American and Canadian expansion onto the Great Plains of North America

the modern-day governing bodies descended from the historic council

a proposed modern-day nation state based on the historic confederacy


wačhípi

From wačhí (“to dance”) + -pi (“plural marker, they”).


wačhípi

third-person plural present indicative of wačhí (“to dance”)


Ʞ

(transcription, obsolete) A tenuis [k]; now ⟨K⟩.


Ʇ

(transcription, obsolete) A tenuis [t]; now ⟨T⟩.


bdóte

We use the term Bdote area for the area surrounding the bdote of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.

(Can we date this quote?), Bdote Memory Map:

where two or more bodies of water converge


wakaŋ

Derived from the Dakota word kan, "anything that is old or has existed a long time" or an incomprehensible but wonderful experience.

The wakan nature of these objects also came from the belief that the women creating them were inspired by a spirit being: the Double Woman, or the Two-Women.

2012, Colette Hyman, Dakota women's work : creativity, culture, and exile (in English):

Water that comes from within the earth is pure and as such is considered wakaŋ or sacred.

2012, Gwen Westerman, Bruce White, Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota (in English), page 19:

Other accounts place Dakota people even farther north than Bde Wakan.

2012, Gwen Westerman, Bruce White, Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota (in English), page 20:

Śunkawakan cinca kin tohanyan icagapi kte cin iyehanyan icagapi śni qa kan waśake śni kinhan ecen wowidagwicunyanpi iyecece śni.

1894, Sunkawakan Wicayuhapi, Santee Agency, Nebraska: Synod of Lakes and Prairies (Presbyterian Church), Santee Normal Training School Press, page 6:

affixed to proper nouns to indicate holiness