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kêechas / keechasa- big, large (plural)
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lexicon ID #3780 | revised Mar 16 2015
kêechas / keechasa- • N • big, large (plural)
Literally: 'big ones'
| Derivation: | kêech-as | (= -kaam-ich-as) |
| big-PL | (= -large-DIM-PL) |
- xás vaa ushnákanik pakeechaséeshiipsa ... So then she had pulled up the biggest rocks ... [Reference: KS-05_a'iknêech-han 212]
- chéemyaach kunkêechasahiti. Quickly they grow big. [Reference: TK143.8]
Sentence examples (5)
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hâari víri-va káakum kêe[chas] úruh-sas sometime so-so some big.ones round-PL Sometimes, some of the big ones are round. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Playpa-vík-ah-ar kêechasa-hiruva I couldn't do that the-weave--INST big.ones-too I couldn't do that If the “weavers” (the sticks you weave with) are too big, I couldn't do that. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Madeline Davis | Download | PlayBut my weavers uum kêechas-hiruva But my weavers 3.SG big.ones-too But my weavers, they're too big. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Playmanâa pu-xu-tih-ara xáy kêechas ni-hruv maybe NEG-think-DUR-NEG let.not big.ones 1s(>3)-use Well, you shouldn't try to use big ones. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Playxás vaa káan kêechas vúra páramva pa-'íshaha then so there big.ones Intensive boil the-water We had to heat the water there.