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gidoon nid gh
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your mouth

Note:
There is no simple independent word for mouth. A personal prefix goes with the dependent noun stem /=doon-/mouth to make a full word: 
 
  • nidoon, nindoon, indoon, ndoon my mouth (1s-0s) 
  • gidoon your mouth (2s-0s) 
  • odoon h/ mouth (3s-0s) Some basic forms of 
gidoonyour mouth are: 



gidoon sg; gidoonens dim; gidooning loc; Stem: /=doon-/

gidoon sg gh
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nj
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gidooning loc es
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Nora Livesay, Editor
John D. Nichols, Founder and Linguistic Editor

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Word Family

=doon- nid STEM FOR: mouth
indoon nid my mouth nindoon nid my mouth gidoon nid your mouth odoon nid h/ mouth

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