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putyíinkach to defecate on
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lexicon ID #5131 | revised Nov 09 2005
putyíinkach • V • to defecate on
Source: WB 1183, p.376
- xás uxus, tîi kanpútyiinkachi. And (Coyote) thought, "I want to shit on it." [Reference: WB T14.18]
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xas u-xus tîi matêe kan-pútyiinkach-i páy pa-'asa-yâamach-ak vúra uum yâamach pa-'as then 3s(>3)-think let... later 1s(>3)-defecate.on-IMPER this the-rock-pretty-Locative Intensive 3.SG pretty the-rock Then he thought: "Let me do just a little bit of job on this nice rock, it looks so nice." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textxas u-pútyiinkach then 3s(>3)-defecate.on Then he did just a little bit of job on it. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full texttîi pay kich xas kumatêeshich kuna kan-pútyiinkach-i let... this only then still.more in.addition 1s(>3)-defecate.on-IMPER Let me do a little bit more of job on it." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textxás u-xus tîi kan-pútyiinkach-i then 3s(>3)-think let... 1s(>3)-defecate.on-IMPER And he thought, "Let me defecate on it!" Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full textxás u-p-ímuus-tih pa-t-u-pútyiinkach then 3s(>3)-ITER-look.at-DUR NOMZ-PERF-3s(>3)-defecate.on And he looked at it again, when he had defecated on it. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full textkári xás ta'ítam kúkuum u-pútyiinkach-heen kumatêeshich then then so again 3s(>3)-defecate.on-ANT still.more And so he defecated on it again, a little more. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text