Ararahih'urípih
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payváheem (variant payváhiim) nowadays

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4721 | revised Mar 01 2016

payváheem • N • nowadays Variant: payvêem.

Variant payváhiim (lexicon ID #7820)

Derivation:  pay vaheem
this vaheem

Source: WB 1104.4, p.372

Note: Perh. equiv. to payêem 'now'.

  • paachvíiv uum vúra payváheem vúra kári. The bird, even now, still (does that). [Reference: DeA & F 4: Land of the Dead 145]
  • víriva payváheem vúra kári káan nipiktamkurihvankôoti. So nowadays I still always go back panning there. [Reference: DF 05: Finding Gold 013]

Sentence examples (5)


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  1. viri-va   payváaheem   vura   kári   kaan   ni-p-iktamkurihv-an-kôo-ti  
    so-so   nowadays   Intensive   then   there   1s(>3)-ITER-pan.for.gold-go.to-to-DUR  
    Even now I go back and pan at that place.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text

  2. víri   payváheem   vúra   kárivarih   u-vîihi-ti   ikriripan-pákurih  
    so   nowadays   Intensive   still   3s(>3)-hate-DUR   placename-song  
    He still dislikes those songs now.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  3. pa-'áraar   t-u-pakurîihva-haak   ikriripan-pákurih   máruk-ninay   váa   xás   vúra   u-kvíip-tih   payváheem   váa   u-kupí-tih  
    the-human   PERF-3s(>3)-sing.songs-when   placename-song   uphill-around   so   then   Intensive   3s(>3)-run-DUR   nowadays   so   3s(>3)-do-DUR  
    Whenever a person sings Amekyaram sweathouse songs in mountain places anywhere, he runs away, he does so now.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  4. váa   vúra   payváheem   ú-thvuuy-ti   pirishkaarim-'áhasur-ar   p-eekriripan-pákurih  
    so   Intensive   nowadays   3s(>3)-be.named-DUR   grizzly-drive.away-INST   the-placename-song  
    It is still called grizzly-bear drive-away-medicine, those Amekyaram sweathouse songs.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  5. víri   váa   vúra   payváhiim   kári   u-'ívun-ti   pa-kun-páxeep-anik   pa-mú-kiit   mu-yáfus  
    so   so   Intensive   nowadays   then   3s(>3)-cry.for-DUR   the-3pl(>3s)-win.from-ANC   the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman   3sPOSS-dress  
    He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  6. payváhiim   váa   káan   vúra   su'   ú-krii   vákay   payváhiim   vakay-'ámtaapkunish   yúxnaam   su'   ú-krii  
    nowadays   so   there   Intensive   inside   3s(>3)-live   worm   nowadays   worm-gray   sand   inside   3s(>3)-live  
    Now she lives in there, she's a bug now, a gray bug, lives in the sand.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  7. xás   vaa   vúra   payváheem   pa-mu-pathakhíram   káan   kun-máh-eesh  
    then   so   Intensive   nowadays   the-3sPOSS-kneeling-place   there   3pl(>3s)-see-FUT  
    And nowadays his kneeling-spot can be seen there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text