Omaha Language Dictionary data

gȼáⁿ-xe 

gthóⁿxe 

adjective 

1. fishy, rancid, as grease; 2. smelling like a dead beaver in cold weather, when it has been kept for five or six days without being cooked; 

May 18, 2011 9:06 pm

 

stative verb 

 

 

 

Ṭanuḳa (fresh; beef or meat of any sort) smells so when cooked after hanging out of doors ten or more days in freezing weather: it is gȼaⁿxe, but not zaⁿsta - Ahigiaⁿȼatai ḳĭ gaⁿȼajĭwaȼĕ. If one eat it often, it is not desirable. So, if a goose be hung out for a day or two without freezing, it is gȼaⁿxe, but not spoiled.