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áasiv cave, overhanging rock
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #53 | revised Jun 26 2014
áasiv • N • cave, overhanging rock
Derivative (1)
asivtíshraam "placename near Clear Creek"
Source: WB 158, p.323
- xás asivshúruk su' utápichkaa. Then he slipped in under a rock. [Reference: KM 27.33]
- yukún vúra uum xára takun'íchunva áasiv. For a long time they had hidden in a cave. [Reference: WB T58.4]
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xas asiv-súruk su' u-tápichkaa then cave-under inside 3s(>3)-slip.to Then he slipped in under a rock. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textapsunmunukich xas u-párihishrih-anik vaa vura kaan asiv-súruk u-tápichkaa-nik racer.snake then 3s(>3)-be.transformed-ANC so Intensive there cave-under 3s(>3)-slip.to-ANC Then he turned into apsunmunukich (snake species) right there, he went in under the overhanging rocks. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textsáruk xás asiv-shúnukich u-tápichkaa downhill then cave-beneath.(dimin.) 3s(>3)-slip.to He slipped downhill under an overhanging rock. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full textyukún vúra uum xára tá kun-'íchunva áasiv you.see Intensive 3.SG long.time PERF 3pl(>3s)-hide.oneself cave You see, (the couple) had hid for a long time in a cave. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textvaa ík káan i-'uum-êesh pá-mita nu-'ínoohvoo-tih-irak pa-'aasív-ak so must there 2s(>3)-arrive-FUT NOMZ-near.past 1pl(>3)-stay.all.the.time.(pl.)-DUR-where the-cave-Locative You must go there where we used to stay, in the cave. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text