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piyâaram / piyâaramu- (two people) to go back, return
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lexicon ID #5047 | revised Oct 31 2014
piyâaram / piyâaramu- • V • (two people) to go back, return
Source: WB 818.1, p.357
- xás vaa vúra kaan kunpithvíripship, kunpiyâaram. Then the two of them started to run back from there, they ran home. [Reference: TK 266.5]
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xas yítha u-píip "náama tá ni-yêeripha chími piyâaram-i then one 3s(>3)-say "as.for.me PERF 1s(>3)-go.through.puberty soon go.back.(two.people)-IMPER Then one day, one of the girls said, "Listen, I am going through puberty, let's go home!" Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textxas yítha u-píip "pûuhara yaayâach pa-pihníich nú-peen tá nu-piyâaram then one 3s(>3)-say "no better the-old.man 1pl(>3)-say.to PERF 1pl(>3)-go.back.(two.people) But the other said, "No, it is better to tell the old man before we go." Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textxas kun-'ipêer "tá nu-piyâaram then 3pl(>3s)-say.to "PERF 1pl(>3)-go.back.(two.people) So they went and said to him, "We are going home." Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textXás vúra tá kun-piyâaram then Intensive PERF 3pl(>3s)-go.back.(two.people) And they're leaving. Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playta'ítam kun-piyâaram-aheen so 3pl(>3s)-go.back.(two.people)-ANT So they went away again. Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full textxás kúkuum imáan máh'iit kun-piyâaram then again tomorrow morning 3pl(>3s)-go.back.(two.people) And again the next day (the young men) went away in the morning. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full textkári xás pa-'ípat u-piip chími man nu-piyâaram-i then then the-doe 3s(>3)-say soon why... 1pl(>3)-go.back.(two.people)-IMPER And Doe said, "Come on, let's leave." Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full textxás kun-ipéer hári-va p-ee-máh-aak pa-sáhyuux aas kích i-xús-eesh tá kun-piyâaram-aheen then 3pl(>3s)-say.to sometime-INDEF NOMZ-2s(>3)-see-when the-sand water like 2s(>3)-think-FUT PERF 3pl(>3s)-go.back.(two.people)-ANT And they told him, "Whenever you see that the sand is wet, you will know that we've gone again." Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full textvíri kún tá kun-piyâaram-aheen so meaning.unknown PERF 3pl(>3s)-go.back.(two.people)-ANT There they had gone away again. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full textkári xás kin-ipéer chími kiik-piyâaram-i then then 3pl>3pl-say.to soon 2pl(>3)-go.back.(two.people)-IMPER Then they were told, "Go back home!" Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textta'ítam kun-piyâaram-aheen so 3pl(>3s)-go.back.(two.people)-ANT So (the girls) went back home. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textxás máh'iit chí nu-piyâaram-eesh xás táhpuus nu-páthraamu-tih then morning soon 1pl(>3)-go.back.(two.people)-FUT then young.fir.tree 1pl(>3)-wrap.hair.with-DUR Then in the morning we were going to leave, and we wore our hair bound with fir boughs. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full textyáas tá nu-p-áatiship tá kóo máruk tá nu-piyâaram then PERF 1pl(>3)-ITER-raise.up PERF all uphill PERF 1pl(>3)-go.back.(two.people) Then we took up our burden baskets, we went back uphill with everything. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text