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Search: kind. 4 total hits in 1 transcripts.
The oriole grandson (4)
činda na: se:-ni tu: ñaula.
bird earth kind-3SG all child
bird earth добрый-3ЕД весь ребенок
All kinds of birds that exist in the world are children.
Все виды птиц, какие есть на земле, – все дети.
The association between birds and children is probably related to the belief that children’s souls 'omö' sit on a tree like birds (see text 12).