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yûuth downriver and across-stream; downriver across the ocean
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lexicon ID #7244 | revised Feb 21 2016
yûuth • ADV • downriver and across-stream; downriver across the ocean
| Derivation: | yu' uuth |
| downriver out.to.water |
Derivatives (3)
avnayûuth "a placename near Cappell"
xavnamnihichthufyûuth "placename, near Wilson Creek"
yûuchich "across- and down-river (dimin.)"
Source: WB 1683.10, p.402; JPH ethno ?:180
- xás yûuth ikurâak kun'ífukraa. And downriver, across the river, they climbed up a ridge. [Reference: DeA&F 1 Salmon 055]
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xás mukun-yûuch-kam-ach ú-krii then 3plPOSS-downriver.and.across-stream-side-DIM 3s(>3)-live And a man lived downriver across-stream from them. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full textxás yûuth u-trûupu-tih then downriver.and.across-stream 3s(>3)-look.downriver.from.here-DUR Then he looked down across. Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full textxás p-oo-fúmtaapsur víri yûuth p-oo-trûupu-tih xánahich axmáy vaa u-kuupha pa-mukun-furax-pikshipíkmath axmáy u-'áapuchur then NOMZ-3s(>3)-blow so downriver.and.across-stream the-3s(>3)-look.downriver.from.here-DUR after.while suddenly so 3s(>3)-do the-3plPOSS-woodpecker.head-sun-shade suddenly 3s(>3)-collapse And when he blew, as he looked down across, in a little while suddenly they did this, (the women's) woodpecker-head sun-shades suddenly collapsed. Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text