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yáfus to wear a dress; to put on a dress
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lexicon ID #7027 | revised Feb 11 2016
yáfus • V • to wear a dress; to put on a dress
Derivatives (5)
axyusyáfus "pine-nut dress"
furaxyáfus "red satin dress"
sirikayáfus "silk"
surukamyáfus "woman's underwear, slip, underskirt of a woman's dress"
yáfus "woman's dress"
Source: WB 1650, p.399
- cheemyáachva vúra kúkuum yíth takunipyáfus. Every once in a while they put on another dress. [Reference: KM 32.4]
- vaa takunipyáfus. They wore those things as dresses. [Reference: WB T65.23]
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xas pamúkîit upeer tâak pamiyáfus níxraam then his.grandmother he.tells.her give.me! your.dress I.bet.it And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.” Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textta'ítam u'êeheen pamuyáfus so she.gaveit.to..him her.dress Then she gave him her dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textváa ta ifuchtîimich váa tápaan uxraam pamúkiit muyáfus that PERF last.one that must(?) he.bet.it his.grandmother her.dress Then at last he even bet his grandmother's dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full texttáay nik tá kunchífich vúra pu'ixraratihara váa xás u'ívur pamúkiit muyáfus much a.little PERF they.won Intensive he.didn't.cry that then he.cried.for his.grandmother her.dress They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textvíri váa vúra payváhiim kári u'ívunti pakunpáxeepanik pamúkiit muyáfus so so Intensive nowadays then he.is.crying they.won.it.from.him his.grandmother her.dress He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textkóova uthvuyxâahanik pamuyáfus so she.felt.sad.long.ago her.dress She felt so sad about her dress. Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full textpamuyáfus á' tóo stakúraan her.dress above it.had become.ripped.up Her dress was ripped up. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full textvíri vaa kunkupitih pathakan'ávak tá kunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan so so they.were.doing.it above.the.knee PERF they.were.tattered their.dresses their.tears with.(by.means.of) that.they.were.crying.for.him Klamath.Lakes.Young.Man They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man. Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full textkáru taay ík vúra yáfus ikyâavish also much must Intensive dress you.will.make.it And you must make many dresses. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textta'ítam uum káru uvíkaheen káru úkyav payáfus so 3.SG also she.wove also she.made.them the.dresses So she too wove and made the dresses. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textkári xás hâari vúra piríshriik patá kun'áhoo pamukunyáfus tutatitítit then then sometime Intensive brushy.place where they.traveled their.dresses it.had.become.tattered And sometimes it was a brushy place where they traveled, their dresses got torn. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textpeempurávaas patuvuhvúhinaa púyava patakuníkviipvarayva púyava tá kunsíchakvutva vaa tá kunipyáfus the.flour.sacks when.they.did.the.deerskin.dance you.see when.they.carried.blades.in.the.deerskin.dance you.see PERF they.put.them.around.their.waists so PERF they.put.them.on.as.dresses And when they did the deerskin dance, when they carried the obsidian blades, they wore the flour bags around their waist, they put them on that way, as dresses. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full textararayáfus uum vúra táfirapu ukyâarahitih Indian.dress 3.SG Intensive buckskin it.was.made.with The Indian dress was made of buckskin. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full textpayáfus uum vúra yítha vúra pufíchmaan the.dress 3.SG Intensive one Intensive deer.skin The dress was just one deerskin. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full textxás pamukunyafusayêepsha vúra uum yâamach ukyâahahitih then their.good.dress Intensive 3.SG pretty it.was.made And their good dresses were made pretty. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full textmukunyáfus puvâaramasahara their.dress not.long Their dresses were not long. Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text