Colors In Cree. The main colors in Cree are: Red – Mihkwāw; Blue – Sīpihkwāw; Green – Askihtakwāw; Yellow – Wāposāwāw; Black – Kaskitēwāw; White – Wāpiskāw; Gray – Pihkonākwan; Orange – Osāwāw; Purple – Nīpāmāyātān; Pink – Wāpikwanīwinākwan; Brown – Kaskitewosāwāw; The above colors can be used to ...

Jul 18, 2016 · In Cree, speakers may use the word osâwi– for yellow, orange or brown. They may use the word sîpihko – for blue, green, or grey. They may also create new colour words – just as we do in English – by combining the colour words from the chart with each other, or by modifying them with wâpi- (meaning ‘bright’ or ‘light’), and ...

Aug 11, 2018 · Welcome to our comprehensive guide on how to say "pink" in Cree! In this guide, we will cover the formal and informal ways of expressing the color "pink"

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itwêwina is a Plains Cree Dictionary. Type any Cree word to find its English translation. You can search for short Cree words (e.g., atim) or very long Cree words (e.g., ê-kî-nitawi-kâh-kîmôci-kotiskâwêyâhk). Or you can type an English word and find its possible Cree translations.

Sep 15, 2024 · Colours work very differently in Cree than they do in English. For one thing, English is said to have eleven basic colour terms, where Cree has only four: black, white, red and yellow. (English probably has more “basic” colours than any other language; the others are green, blue, brown, orange, pink, purple, and gray.) Another important ...

Apr 20, 2023 · Pink – Wāpikwanīwinākwan. Brown – Kaskitewosāwāw. The above colors can be used to describe inanimate objects. In Cree, if the noun you are describing is plural then the color needs to be in plural form as well. To make the above colors plural, just add an ‘a’ onto the end of them. Exception:

The colors in Cree are descriptive and are related to our immediate surroundings. For example, mihko can be interpreted as 'red' but it can also be interpreted as 'blood'. Another example is wapikwuneewinakwun - 'it is pink'.

This Cree dictionary was written by the last remaining fluent Cree Elders of Ochékiwi Sípí Cree Nation.

It is a bidirectional bilingual dictionary of 942 pages containing 24,150 Cree to English entries and 3,787 English to Cree entries. Entries in this dictionary include sense numbering, cross-references such as synonyms and variants, and etymologies for loanwords.