temehekwan
English: Translation
wraps a ball, wraps into a ball, balls up
Part of Speech
verb
Semantic Domain
Physical Impact
Dialect
Santa Ysabel
Notes
Written tehemekwan (tethemekwaan) in Mesa Grande. The letter "h" within a word can sometimes switch places with a nearby consonant, even in the speech of a single speaker.
Passive form tehemekwanp "is wrapped up, wraps himself up".
Related to tehemekwiillp (tethemuukwiillp) "is tangled up".
Recorded in Tiipay: tehemkwan "wraps something flat (e.g. paper) around something, wraps a tortilla", themkwaan "wraps flat things around several things".