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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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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 textpa-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 textyáan 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 textkári xás púyava imáan yáan ník vúra u-súpaahi-ti kári tá 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 textimáan 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 textta'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 textyáan 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 textimáankam 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 textkáruma 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 textyáan 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 textpúyava 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 textmáh'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 textyáan 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