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imus / imusa- looks, appearance
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lexicon ID #2569 | revised Nov 16 2014
imus / imusa- • N • looks, appearance
| Derivation: | imus-a |
| look.at-DEVERB |
Derivatives (2)
imusakêem "ugly"
imusáyav "good-looking, pretty, handsome"
- pakuméemus peeheerahásaan... How the tobacco leaves look... [Reference: TK 101.1]
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yáv vúra yâamach payupsítanach xás vúra uum pakêech úkyav xás vúra uum imusakêem good Intensive pretty the.baby then Intensive 3.SG after.while when.big she.made? then Intensive 3.SG ugly She was pretty as a baby, but after a while, when she got bigger, she looked ugly. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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