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mai

ᘍᐉ

berry, fruit, blueberry

This serves both as the generic term for fruit and berries and as a specific term for blueberries when the kind of berry is clear from context.

Possessed Forms:

Etymology: Loan from Gitksan maay'.

Example

Hanuyeh,	mai,	'ink'ez	'ughuih	cha	yoo	huyilh'i	'ink'ez	huyuyi.
plant	berry	and	root	too	medicine	they use it as	and	they eat it
They used plants, berries, and roots for medicine and they ate them.