To put out a fire

Hill Patwin — mihni — /mini/

River Patwin — minoho — /minoho/

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The word for putting out a fire is mihni in Hill Patwin, and minoho in River Patwin.

These words can be found in the Patwin language archives from Hill Patwin speaker Harry Lorenzo, River Patwin speakers Sarah Gonzales and Ida Mitchum, and the speakers consulted by C. Hart Merriam.

Listen

River Patwin speaker Ida Mitchum saying, Minahos pi. ‘He put the fire out.’ From a 1953 recording made by Morris Swadesh and Robert Melton.

See

C. Hart Merriam’s transcription of the Hill Patwin sentence, Yurru po mihnusa, ‘The rain put out the fire’, gathered in the Cortina Valley between 1903 and 1927.

Sources

Merriam, C. Hart. Patwin vocabulary: ʼKlet win. 1903, 1923, 1927. From unnamed speakers. C. Hart Merriam Papers, BANC FILM 1022, reel 40, list V72. Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. https://archive.org/details/bancroft_chartmerriam_1556_40/page/n337/mode/2up

Mitchum, Ida Benjamin, Morris Swadesh and Robert Melton. “California, Colusa Katsildihi Ranch, Patwin.” 1-hour audio recording of a River Patwin elicitation session with speaker Ida Benjamin Mitchum. 1953. Archived at Indiana University Archives of Traditional Music: 85-555-F, OT 7423.