Ararahih'urípih
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piyâaram / piyâaramu- (two people) to go back, return

Dictionary Entry
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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  1. xas   yítha   u-píip   "náama      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 text
  2. xas   yítha   u-píip   "pûuhara   yaayâach   pa-pihníich   -peen      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 text
  3. xas   kun-'ipêer   "   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 text
  4. Xás   vúra      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
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  5. ta'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 text
  6. xás   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 text
  7. kári   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 text
  8. xás   kun-ipéer   hári-va   p-ee-máh-aak   pa-sáhyuux   aas   kích   i-xús-eesh      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 text
  9. víri   kún      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 text
  10. kári   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 text
  11. ta'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 text
  12. xás   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 text
  13. yáas      nu-p-áatiship      kóo   máruk      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