bilí

See also: bili, bǐlì, -bili, and bili-

Crow

Etymology

From Proto-Crow-Hidatsa *wirí, from Proto-Siouan *wa-rį́•.

Noun

bilí

1. water

Derived terms

• bilí-chikúa (“soda water; soda, pop”, literally “sweet water”)
• bimmuúschoopeeta

References

• Randolph Graczyk, A Grammar of Crow (2007)
• Reed, Jr., George (1974 September) Dictionary of the Crow Language‎^[1], Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 40
• Say, Thomas (1823) “Vocabularies of Indian languages”, in Edwin James, editor, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and ’20, by Order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec’y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, volume II, Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, pages lxix–lxxxviii: “Water, me¹-ne¹”
• Wied, Maximilian, Prinz zu (1841) “Sprachproben verschiedener Völkerstämme des nord-westlichen Americas”, in Reise in das innere Nord-America in den Jahren 1832 bis 1834 (in German), volume 2, Coblenz: J. Hœlscher, page 490: “Wasser — Minä́.”