Ararahih'urípih
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yaan recently, just now

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7006 | revised Feb 09 2016

yaan ADV • recently, just now

Derivative (1)
yáan'iiftihan "young person, esp. a young man"

Source: WB 1655, p.400

  • yáan vúra u'útutrihvuti. (A bud) is about to burst. [Reference: TK 56.26]
  • xás pakun'ípak, xás ivkúkam vúra yáan u'ípahooti. Then when they came back, he was just walking in through the ivkúkam. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 068a]


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  1. yáan   vúr   u-'íkkyusunu-tih-ach   p-eheeraha-ppírish  
    recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-point.(in.direction)-DUR-DIM.(verbs)   the-tobacco-plant  
    The tobacco is just starting to come up.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full text
  2. pa-yáan   vúr   u-'íif-ti-haak   puxxích   thúkkinkunish   p-eheeraha-'íppa   pa-chím   u-imtúpp-eesh-ahaak   vaa   kári   taváttavkunish  
    NOMZ-recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-grow-DUR-when   very.much   blue-green   the-tobacco-tree   NOMZ-soon   3s(>3)-be.ripe-FUT-when   so   then   light-colored  
    When it is just growing, the tobacco plant is real green, when it is already going to get ripe, it is then light-colored.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text
  3. yáan   vúr   u-'úruhi-tih  
    recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-lay.eggs-DUR  
    It is starting in to have buds on it.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Phases of Flowering (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1') | read full text
  4. kári   xás   púyava   imáan   yáan   ník   vúra   u-súpaahi-ti   kári      kun-pávyiihship  
    then   then   you.see   tomorrow   recently   a.little   Intensive   3s(>3)-become.day-DUR   then   PERF   3pl(>3s)-go.away.again.(pl.)  
    Then the next day it was just daybreak, and they left again.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  5. imáan   máh'iit   yáan   hôoy   u-súpaahi-tih   púyava   kun-pávyiihma  
    tomorrow   morning   recently   where   3s(>3)-become.day-DUR   you.see   3pl(>3s)-go.back.to.(pl.)  
    The next morning it was just daylight here and there, then they went there.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  6. ta'ítam   máh'iit   yáan   vúra   u-súpaahi-tih   u-vôoruraa   pa-'ípaha  
    so   morning   recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-become.day-DUR   3s(>3)-crawl.up   the-tree  
    So in the morning it was scarcely dawn, he climbed up the tree.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text
  7. yáan   vúra   u-súpaahi-tih   pa-kéevniikich   ú-hyiv  
    recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-become.day-DUR   the-old.woman.(dimin.)   3s(>3)-shout  
    It was just dawn, (and) the old woman shouted.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text
  8. imáankam   yáan   vúra   u-súpaahi-tih   u-vâaram  
    next.day   recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-become.day-DUR   3s(>3)-go  
    The next day it was just dawn, (and) he went.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  9. káruma   yáan   u-'áhachak-vunaa-tih  
    in.fact   recently   3s(>3)-withhold.from-PL-DUR  
    The truth was that he had just been holding out on them.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  10. yáan   vúra   ú-kxurarahi-tih  
    recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-become.evening-DUR  
    It was just evening.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  11. púyava   yáan   ník   vúra   hôoyva   u-súpaahi-tih-eesh  
    you.see   recently   a.little   Intensive   somewhere   3s(>3)-become.day-DUR-FUT  
    Then it was just about to be dawn someplace.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full text
  12. máh'iit   pa-yáan   t-u-súpaahi-ti   vaa   kári   kun-víik-tih  
    morning   NOMZ-recently   PERF-3s(>3)-become.day-DUR   so   then   3pl(>3s)-weave-DUR  
    In the morning, when it is just dawn, they are weaving.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  13. yáan   vúra   u-súpaahi-tih  
    recently   Intensive   3s(>3)-become.day-DUR  
    It was just becoming day.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text