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imus / imusa- looks, appearance
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lexicon ID #2569 | revised Nov 16 2014
imus / imusa- • N • looks, appearance
| Derivation: | imus-a |
| look.at-DEVERB |
Derivatives (2)
imusakêem "ugly"
imusáyav "good-looking, pretty, handsome"
- pakuméemus peeheerahásaan... How the tobacco leaves look... [Reference: TK 101.1]
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yáv vúra yâamach pa-yupsítanach xás vúra uum pa-kêech ú-kyav xás vúra uum imusakêem good Intensive pretty the-baby then Intensive 3.SG after.while NOMZ-big 3s(>3)-make then Intensive 3.SG ugly She was pretty as a baby, but after a while, when she got bigger, she looked ugly. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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