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mâam uphill (a short distance)
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lexicon ID #4147 | revised Aug 05 2014
mâam • ADV • uphill (a short distance)
Derivatives (2)
asipakmâam "placename, a target station near Katimin"
tuyvukmâam_va'ahíram "name of a fireplace near Orleans"
Source: WB 953.19, p.365
Note: Contraction of mâakukam, mâakam; never glottalized.
- xás víri kúna kumâam kunihmárafak pakah'árahsas. And the upriver people were running down from uphill just upslope from them. [Reference: WB 10 Coyote Steals Fire 057]
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xás mâam-vanih-ich tá kun-'írunaa then uphill-toward-DIM PERF 3pl(>3s)-go.(pl.) Then they traveled up slope a little ways. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full textchôora ku-mâam let's.go 3sPOSS-uphill Let's go uphill! Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Playku-mâam nú-vyiiship 3sPOSS-uphill 1pl(>3)-go.away.(pl.) Let's go uphill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playipít ku-mâam nú-vyiishipriv yesterday 3sPOSS-uphill 1pl(>3)-go.away.(pl.) Yesterday we went up the hill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playku-mâam tá ni-'árihishrih 3sPOSS-uphill PERF 1s(>3)-become I made it to the top of the hill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | PlayKúkuum again Again we– uphill we– we chopped them down, we stripped little trees. Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full textxás víri kúna ku-mâam kun-ihmárafak pa-kah'árah-sas then so in.addition 3sPOSS-uphill 3pl(>3s)-run.down.from.uphill.(pl.) the-Shasta.Indian-PL And the upriver people were running down from uphill just upslope from them. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full textmâam pa-kúusra t-u-váruprav uphill the-sun PERF-3s(>3)-come.out The sun rose just uphill. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full textu-xú-tih ku-mâam ú-krii pa-kúusrah 3s(>3)-think-DUR 3sPOSS-uphill 3s(>3)-live the-sun He thought, "The sun is just uphill from here." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full textxás aseeshtákak p-oo-p-itvâavnuk mâam páykuuk u-mah tá kun-p-ífukraa mú-'arama xákaan then placename NOMZ-3s(>3)-ITER-look.down.over uphill over.there 3s(>3)-see PERF 3pl(>3s)-ITER-climb.uphill.(plural) 3sPOSS-child both And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill. Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full textkáru pa-'avansáxiich uum tá mâam kun-'íkakraa also the-boy 3.SG PERF uphill 3pl(>3s)-jump.uphill.to.here.(pl.) And the boys were already climbing uphill. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full textvíri káan ník mâam kun-'iruveehrím-piithva so there a.little uphill 3pl(>3s)-stand.(long.objects)-around They stood around uphill there. Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full textkári xás p-oo-vâaram mâam-vanih-ich t-óo kfuukra then then NOMZ-3s(>3)-go uphill-toward-DIM PERF-3s(>3) climb.up.from.downhill So when he went, he climbed a little ways uphill. Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full textvíri kún mu-mâam áxak ifápiit-sha kun-irúfak so meaning.unknown 3sPOSS-uphill two young.unmarried.woman-PL 3pl(>3s)-come.down.(du.) There uphill from him two young women came down. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full textxás pá-mita îin kun-síitv-at ú-peen-ti xáyfaat mâam kúuk i-kuníhivraa then NOMZ-near.past TOPIC 3pl(>3s)-steal-PAST 3s(>3)-say.to-DUR don't! uphill to.there 2s(>3)-shoot.over And the one who stole him told him, "Don't shoot up over the hill!" Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full textxás mâam kúuk u-kúniihva yiimúsich vúra then uphill to.there 3s(>3)-shoot little.ways.off Intensive So he shot a little ways uphillward. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full textpúya mâam kanée-peen-tih axicha-'êechkee-puh-ich ní-krii and.so uphill 3pl>1s-say.to-DUR child-kidnap-having.been.-ed-DIM 1s(>3)-live "Say, I'm told uphill, I'm a kidnapped child!" Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full textpúyava pa-t-óo kvírip-uni pa-'áthiith t-óo kuuyva mâam xás t-u-p-ikyívish you.see NOMZ-PERF-3s(>3) run-down the-hazel.withe PERF-3s(>3) strike uphill then PERF-3s(>3)-ITER-fall.down And when he ran downhill, he hit the hazel branches, and he fell back to the ground uphill. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full textmâam pa-t-u-súpaaha maruk t-oo trâa t-u-vásip uphill NOMZ-PERF-3s(>3)-become.day uphill PERF-3s(>3) look.upward PERF-3s(>3)-rise.up When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Playku-máam vúra hôoy u-píip p-oo-'aramsîip t-u-vásip 3sPOSS-uphill Intensive where 3s(>3)-say NOMZ-3s(>3)-start.out PERF-3s(>3)-rise.up He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Playpayêem vúra hôoyva u-'aramsîipriv-tih pu-'aapunmuti u-xú-ti ku-mâam vúra u-píip p-oo-'aramsîipriv-tih now Intensive somewhere 3s(>3)-start.out-DUR NEG-know 3s(>3)-think-DUR 3sPOSS-uphill Intensive 3s(>3)-say NOMZ-3s(>3)-start.out-DUR He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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