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yêeripha / yêeriphi- to go through puberty; (girl) to menstruate for the first time
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lexicon ID #7068 | revised Feb 11 2016
yêeripha / yêeriphi- • V • to go through puberty; (girl) to menstruate for the first time
| Derivation: | yêerip-ha |
| yêerip-DENOM |
Derivatives (3)
yeeníphaanach "an insect, squash bug"
yeenipharáthiinka "(adolescent boy) to have the voice change"
yêeriphar "menstruating for the first time; menstrual girl"
Source: WB 1673, p.400
- náama taniyêeripha, chími nupiyáarami. As for me, I've started menstruating, let's go home. [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 052]
- mí'aramah tuyêeripha, káan xás kun'íhukti. My daughter is having her first period, they're having a flower dance there. [Reference: KT 129a.30]
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xas yítha u-píip "náama tá ni-yêeripha chími piyâaram-i then one 3s(>3)-say "as.for.me PERF 1s(>3)-go.through.puberty soon go.back.(two.people)-IMPER Then one day, one of the girls said, "Listen, I am going through puberty, let's go home!" 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 textvíri t-u-yêeripa so PERF-3s(>3)-go.through.puberty (The child) is having her first menses. Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text