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pafyuk / pafyúku- to come around again
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lexicon ID #4469 | revised Oct 31 2014
pafyuk / pafyúku- • V • to come around again
- xáyfaat ík vúra ôok ipáfyuk. You mustn't come around here again. [Reference: KT 125.26]
- páy kumákuusra kâanimich impáak tupáfyuk. In this month (March), the poor people travel on the trails (because snow has melted off). [Reference: JPH ethno ?:160]
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xás ú-ppeer-anik achvúun îin kun-íppeer-anik xáy faat ík vúra ôok i-páfyuk iim vúra pu-'ôok vúrayvu-tih-eesh-ara then 3s(>3)-say.to-ANC hookbill.salmon TOPIC 3pl(>3s)-say.to-ANC don't! must Intensive here 2s(>3)-come.around.again 2sg. Intensive NEG-here go.around-DUR-FUT-NEG And Hookbill told him: "You must never come around here again, you are not going to come around here." Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full textxás kun-íppéer iim kyáru vura xáy faat ík ôok i-páfyuk iim kyáru vura pu-'ôok ikr-êevish-ara achvúun kun-íppéer then 3pl(>3s)-say.to 2sg. also Intensive don't! must here 2s(>3)-come.around.again 2sg. also Intensive NEG-here live-FUT-NEG hookbill.salmon 3pl(>3s)-say.to And they told him: "You yourself must not come around here, you too are not going to stay here," they told Hookbill. Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text