gibaaw

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Tsimshian

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Noun

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gibaaw

  1. Alternative form of gyibaaw (wolf)

References

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  • William Beynon, Russell Hayward, Tsimshian Stories, volume 6 (1985): gibaaw - wolf
  • Christopher Fritz Roth, Becoming Tsimshian: the social life of names (2008): These terms are perfectly transparent to Sm'algyax speakers, who are distracted only by the use of the Gitksan / Nisga'a form for "wolf," gibuu, as opposed to the downriver form gibaaw.