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íshyaav winter
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3178 | revised Jun 11 2004
íshyaav • N • winter
Derivatives (5)
ishyâat "King salmon, "spring salmon""
ishyaavárih "late in the year"
ishyáavha "to winter, to live through the winter"
ithéeshyaav "all winter"
ithéeshyav "all winter"
Source: WB 744, p.352
Sentence examples (6)
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xás tá íshyaav then PERF winter And it was winter by now. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full textxás ithâan kum-éeshyaav vúra puxích t-u-páthrih pa-'íshaha t-u-'uh then once 3sPOSS-winter Intensive very.much PERF-3s(>3)-rain the-water PERF-3s(>3)-rise.(water) And one winter it rained hard, the water rose. Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full textpa-vírusar íshyaav kusrah-kêem kári koovúra eeráriiv-ak kúuk tá kun-pá-vyiihma the-bear winter sun-bad then all den-Locative to PERF 3pl(>3s)-ITER-go.to.(pl.) In the winter, in December (the bad month), the bears all go into dens. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full textpúyava sú' kun-íkrii ithé-eshyaav you.see inside 3pl(>3s)-live one-winter They stay inside all winter. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full textpúyava íshyaav kun-kupee-ykár-ahi-tih you.see winter 3pl(>3s)-MODAL-beat-Modal-DUR They killed it that way in the winter. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full textpúyava vaa íshyaav kun-'áam-tih you.see that winter 3pl(>3s)-eat-DUR And in the winter they ate it. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text