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yáfus to wear a dress; to put on a dress
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lexicon ID #7027 | revised Feb 11 2016
yáfus • V • to wear a dress; to put on a dress
Derivatives (5)
axyusyáfus "pine-nut dress"
furaxyáfus "red satin dress"
sirikayáfus "silk"
surukamyáfus "woman's underwear, slip, underskirt of a woman's dress"
yáfus "woman's dress"
Source: WB 1650, p.399
- cheemyáachva vúra kúkuum yíth takunipyáfus. Every once in a while they put on another dress. [Reference: KM 32.4]
- vaa takunipyáfus. They wore those things as dresses. [Reference: WB T65.23]
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xas pa-mú-kîit u-peer tâak pa-mi-yáfus ní-xraam then the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman 3s(>3)-say.to give.me! the-2sPOSS-wear.dress 1s(>3)-bet And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.” Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textta'ítam u-'êeh-een pa-mu-yáfus so 3s(>3)-give-ANT the-3sPOSS-wear.dress Then she gave him her dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textváa ta ifuchtîimich váa tápaan u-xraam pa-mú-kiit mu-yáfus that PERF last.one that must(?) 3s(>3)-bet the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman 3sPOSS-dress Then at last he even bet his grandmother's dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full texttáay nik tá kun-chífich vúra pu-'ixrara-tih-ara váa xás u-'ívur pa-mú-kiit mu-yáfus much a.little PERF 3pl(>3s)-beat Intensive NEG-weep-DUR-NEG that then 3s(>3)-cry.for the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman 3sPOSS-dress They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textvíri váa vúra payváhiim kári u-'ívun-ti pa-kun-páxeep-anik pa-mú-kiit mu-yáfus so so Intensive nowadays then 3s(>3)-cry.for-DUR the-3pl(>3s)-win.from-ANC the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman 3sPOSS-dress He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textkóova u-thvuyxâah-anik pa-mu-yáfus so 3s(>3)-care-ANC the-3sPOSS-dress She felt so sad about her dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textpa-mu-yáfus á' t-óo stakúraan the-3sPOSS-dress above PERF-3s(>3) become.ripped.up Her dress was ripped up. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full textvíri vaa kun-kupi-tih patha-kan-'ávak tá kun-thataktakúraan pa-mukun-yáfus pa-mukun-yupastáran mûuk pa-kun-'ívun-ti kahyuras'afishríhan so so 3pl(>3s)-do-DUR knee-Locative-above PERF 3pl(>3s)-be.tattered the-3plPOSS-dress the-3plPOSS-tear.(from.weeping) with.(by.means.of) NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-cry.for-DUR Klamath.Lakes.Young.Man They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man. Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full textkáru taay ík vúra yáfus i-kyâa-vish also much must Intensive dress 2s(>3)-make-FUT And you must make many dresses. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textta'ítam uum káru u-vík-aheen káru ú-kyav pa-yáfus so 3.SG also 3s(>3)-weave-ANT also 3s(>3)-make the-dress So she too wove and made the dresses. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textkári xás hâari vúra pirísh-riik pa-tá kun-'áhoo pa-mukun-yáfus t-u-tatitítit then then sometime Intensive plant-place NOMZ-PERF 3pl(>3s)-go the-3plPOSS-dress PERF-3s(>3)-be.tattered And sometimes it was a brushy place where they traveled, their dresses got torn. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textp-eempurávaas pa-t-u-vuhvúhi-naa púyava pa-ta-kun-íkviipvarayva púyava tá kun-síchakvutva vaa tá kun-ip-yáfus the-flour.sack NOMZ-PERF-3s(>3)-do.jump.dance-PL you.see NOMZ-PERF-3pl(>3s)-carry.blades.in.deerskin.dance you.see PERF 3pl(>3s)-put.on.a.belt so PERF 3pl(>3s)-ITER-wear.dress And when they did the deerskin dance, when they carried the obsidian blades, they wore the flour bags around their waist, they put them on that way, as dresses. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full textarara-yáfus uum vúra táfirapu u-kyâar-ahi-tih human-dress 3.SG Intensive buckskin 3s(>3)-make.with-ESS-DUR The Indian dress was made of buckskin. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full textpa-yáfus uum vúra yítha vúra pufích-maan the-dress 3.SG Intensive one Intensive deer-skin The dress was just one deerskin. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full textxás pa-mukun-yafusa-yêepsha vúra uum yâamach u-kyâah-ahi-tih then the-3plPOSS-dress-good.(pl.) Intensive 3.SG pretty 3s(>3)-make-ESS-DUR And their good dresses were made pretty. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full textmukun-yáfus pu-vâarama-sa-hara 3plPOSS-dress NEG-long-PL-NEG Their dresses were not long. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text