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* ''ñuganāja'' "we crawled" [ˌɲugaˈnaːɟ͡ʑa] | * ''ñuganāja'' "we crawled" [ˌɲugaˈnaːɟ͡ʑa] | ||
* ''driturkye'' "[I've been told that] (it) was done against you" [ˈdʀʲituˤkje] | * ''driturkye'' "[I've been told that] (it) was done against you" [ˈdʀʲituˤkje] | ||
* '' | * ''švaghṛṣṭrausis'' "tunnel" [ˌɕʋagʱʀ̩ˈʂʈʀaʊ̯sʲis] | ||
* '' | * ''švaghṛṣṭraustammikeika'' "tunnel railway station" [ˌɕʋagʱʀ̩ʂʈʀaʊ̯sˌtammʲiˈkeɪ̯ka] | ||
Words with unpredictable stress often have regional variations. For example, ''tandayena'' "spring (season)" is stressed as [tandaˈjena] in most of the East and Northeast but as regular [tanˈdajena] almost anywhere else (in this particular case, the irregular stress is actually closer to the etymology, as it is a borrowing from a Kans-Tsan compound word). | Words with unpredictable stress often have regional variations. For example, ''tandayena'' "spring (season)" is stressed as [tandaˈjena] in most of the East and Northeast but as regular [tanˈdajena] almost anywhere else (in this particular case, the irregular stress is actually closer to the etymology, as it is a borrowing from a Kans-Tsan compound word). | ||