'aashaa kway'maap
English: Translation
mockingbird
Part of Speech
noun
Semantic Domain
Birds
Dialect
Santa Ysabel
Custom tags
Nominalized
Not in Dictionary
Scientific Name
Mimus polyglottos
Notes
Differs from more common 'aashaa kwilaaw
Kway'maap suggests it originates from the verb 'iimaap, which is not documented. Visually similar to hiimaap "is blind".
Speaker suggested the name refers to the bird's behavior of repeating sounds.