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yeeripáxvuh adolescent girl ; daughter
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lexicon ID #7067 | revised Feb 11 2016
yeeripáxvuh • N • adolescent girl ; daughter
Derivation: | yêerip axvuh |
yêerip fuzz |
Derivative (1)
yeenipaxvúhich "little (i.e. pre-adolescent) girl"
Source: WB 1674, p.400
Note: The diminutive form is yeenipaxvúhich 'little girl'.
- káan pihnêefich úkrii, muyeeripáxvuh xákaan kun'iin, muhrôoha támit u'ívat. Coyote lived there, he and his daughter lived, his wife had died. [Reference: WB 16: Coyote Marries His Own Daughter 001]
- takunpichakúvaan payeeripáxvuhsa. They felt proud, those girls. [Reference: TK 73.3]
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xas mu-yiimúsich káru ník u-'áraarahi-ti áxak yeeripáxvuh-sa kaan kun-'iin then 3sPOSS-little.ways.off also a.little 3s(>3)-live.(pl.)-DUR two adolescent.girl-PL there 3pl(>3s)-(two).be And (others) lived close by. Two girls lived there. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textkári xas pa-yeeripáxvuh-sa kin-'ipêer then then the-adolescent.girl-PL 3pl>3pl-say.to Well, then, people told the girls, Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textkáruma t-u-yêeripha pa-yêeripaxvuh in.fact PERF-3s(>3)-go.through.puberty the-adolescent.girl Now that girl is going through puberty." Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textp-eethríhar káru kun-pathraam-vú-tiih-va pa-yeeripáxvuuh-sa ithasúpaa kun-pathraam-vú-tiih-va káru káakum uumkun kun-táv-tiih-va yúpin the-flower also 3pl(>3s)-wrap.hair.with-PL.ACT-DUR-PL.ACT the-adolescent.girl-PL all.day 3pl(>3s)-wrap.hair.with-PL.ACT-DUR-PL.ACT also some they 3pl(>3s)-wear.visor-DUR-PL.ACT forehead Flowers also girls wore as their hair-club wrapping, wearing them as wrapping all day, and some of them wore a vizor on the forehead. Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full texttá kun-pichakúvaan pa-yeeripáxvuuh-sa PERF 3pl(>3s)-brag the-adolescent.girl-PL They felt proud, those girls. Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full textkári xás u-piip yítha hûut u-pí-tih pa-yeeripáxvuh iinâak u-kpêehvu-tih then then 3s(>3)-say one how 3s(>3)-say-DUR the-adolescent.girl indoors 3s(>3)-shout-DUR Then one said, "What is the girl saying? She's shouting inside." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full textt-óo hmaachichva pa-yeeripáxvuh PERF-3s(>3) bother the-adolescent.girl He was fooling around with the girl. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full textvúra t-u-tápkuup pa-yeeripáxvuh Intensive PERF-3s(>3)-like the-adolescent.girl He just liked the girl. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full textpa-yeeripáxvuh ú-hmaachichva the-adolescent.girl 3s(>3)-bother He fooled around with the girl. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full textkáan pihnêefich ú-krii mu-yeeripáxvu xákaan kun-'iin mu-hrôoha támit u-'ív-at there coyote 3s(>3)-live 3sPOSS-adolescent.girl both 3pl(>3s)-(two).be 3sPOSS-wife already.in.the.past 3s(>3)-die-PAST Coyote lived there, he and his daughter lived, his wife had died. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full textxás pa-yeeripáxvu t-óo kêechha xás yâamach t-u-'íifship then the-adolescent.girl PERF-3s(>3) be.big then pretty PERF-3s(>3)-grow.up And the girl got big, and she grew up pretty. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full textxás pa-pihnîich ú-peen-vunaa pa-yeeripáxvuh-sas chími kiik-p-iru-vôonishuk-i then the-old.man 3s(>3)-say.to-PL the-adolescent.girl-PL soon 2pl(>3)-ITER-PL-crawl.out-IMPER And the old man told the girls, "Crawl out again!" Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full textkáru pa-yeeripáxvuh-sas avansáxiich-as asuuxár-as also the-adolescent.girl-PL boy-PL fasting-PL And the girls and little boys were fasting. Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full textyeeripáxvu u-hyárih ú-ksuupku-ti ípaha káan u-'íihya adolescent.girl 3s(>3)-stand 3s(>3)-point.at-DUR tree there 3s(>3)-stand.(long.object) A girl is standing, she is pointing at a tree, it is standing there. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full textpa-yeeripáxvu vaa vúra káan u-hyárih the-adolescent.girl so Intensive there 3s(>3)-stand The girl is standing there like that. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full textpa-yeeripáxvu vaa vúra káan u-hyárih the-adolescent.girl so Intensive there 3s(>3)-stand The girl is standing there like that. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full textpayôok yurástiim kun-ifyúkiichvu-tih pa-'ávansa káru pa-yeeripáxvuh right.here seashore 3pl(>3s)-go.around-DUR the-man also the-adolescent.girl Here the man and the girl are taking a walk on the seashore. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text