noun animate
grasshopper
Plural:
calsok
Possessed:
'calsomol
Locative:
calsihkuk where there are grasshoppers
Diminutive:
calsis, calsossis

Keywords

grasshopper

Example Sentences

Peskotomuhkati-Wolastoqey English
Mecimiw ntiyannuk calsok, "'Cimilin kolotamut kosona knehpuhul!" We used to say to the grasshoppers, "Give me some chewing tobacco, or I'll kill you!" (reference to grasshoppers' brown spittle)
Mecimiw ewasisuwiyan ntiyali-kiluwahak calsok. When I was a child, I used to go looking for grasshoppers.
Akiyan not calsis! Look at that little grasshopper!

Audio Recordings

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