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ikyáviichva / ikyavîichvu- to work
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lexicon ID #2353 | revised Dec 07 2014
ikyáviichva / ikyavîichvu- • V • to work
Derivation: | ikyav-iichva |
make-in.pretense |
Derivatives (3)
ikyavíchvaan "worker"
ikyáviichva "work, a job"
ikyáviichvih "to work for (someone)"
Source: WB 557.6, p.343
- chaka'îimich vúra tukyavîichvuti. He works slowly. [Reference: KV]
- puxichayâach ikyáviichvi! Work harder! [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 412]
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vaa mukunikyáviichva akâayva vúra tá kunsáruk pamukunsárip so their.job anyone Intensive PERF they.bring their.sticks That was their job, different people brought them their sticks. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Playnaa vúra ikyavíchvaan 1sg. Intensive worker I'm a worker. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playvíri vaa kumá'ii pa'itíhaan nuu xás nukyáviichvuti aa íshaha káru núktaamti so that because.of always we then we.workee water also we.carried That’s why we always had to work then ah–we also carried water. Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full textvúra itíhaan panukyáviichvuti Intensive always we.were.working We were always working. Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full textkáru uum pa'asiktávaan atahári vúra kunikyáviichvutih ávaha kunikyáatih also 3.SG the.women always Intensive they.were.working food they.were.gathering And the women were always working, they were gathering food. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full textta'ítam koovúra pakeemishatunvêechas kunikyáviichvunaa yukún vaa káan kunpávyiihmeesh patupíshyaavpa so all the.little.wild.animals they.work you.see that there they.go.back.to when.it.is.winter So all the little wild animals worked, you see they were going to come back there when it was winter. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full textyítha áraar apxantínihich ukyavíichvihitihanik one human white.man he.worked.for A certain Indian once worked for a white man. Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text