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mâam uphill (a short distance)
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lexicon ID #4147 | revised Aug 05 2014
mâam • ADV • uphill (a short distance)
Derivatives (2)
asipakmâam "placename, a target station near Katimin"
tuyvukmâam_va'ahíram "name of a fireplace near Orleans"
Source: WB 953.19, p.365
Note: Contraction of mâakukam, mâakam; never glottalized.
- xás víri kúna kumâam kunihmárafak pakah'árahsas. And the upriver people were running down from uphill just upslope from them. [Reference: WB 10 Coyote Steals Fire 057]
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xás mâamvanihich tá kun'írunaa then a.little.uphill. PERF they.traveled Then they traveled up slope a little ways. Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full textchôora kumâam let's.go uphill Let's go uphill! Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Playkumâam núvyiiship uphill we.go Let's go uphill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playipít kumâam núvyiishipriv yesterday uphill we.went Yesterday we went up the hill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playkumâam tá ni'árihishrih up.the.hill PERF I.got I made it to the top of the hill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | PlayKúkuum again Again we– uphill we– we chopped them down, we stripped little trees. Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full textxás víri kúna kumâam kunihmárafak pakah'árahsas then so in.addition just.upslope they.ran.down.from.uphill the.upriver.people And the upriver people were running down from uphill just upslope from them. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full textmâam pakúusra tuváruprav uphill the.sun it.rose The sun rose just uphill. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full textuxútih kumâam úkrii pakúusrah he.thinks uphill.from.here it.lives the.sun He thought, "The sun is just uphill from here." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote Tries to Reach the Sun" (WB_KL-12) | read full textxás aseeshtákak poopitvâavnuk mâam páykuuk umah tá kunpífukraa mú'arama xákaan then placename when.he.looks.over.his.shoulder uphill over.there he.sees PERF they.were.climbing.uphill his.child both And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill. Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full textkáru pa'avansáxiich uum tá mâam kun'íkakraa also the.boys 3.SG PERF uphill they.hurried.uphill And the boys were already climbing uphill. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full textvíri káan ník mâam kun'iruveehrímpiithva so there a.little uphill they.stood.around They stood around uphill there. Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full textkári xás poovâaram mâamvanihich tóo kfuukra then then when.he.went towards.uphill.a.little he.had climb.up.from.downhill So when he went, he climbed a little ways uphill. Source: Mamie Offield, "Wrestling Medicine" (WB_KL-55) | read full textvíri kún mumâam áxak ifápiitsha kunirúfak so meaning.unknown uphill.from.him two young.women they.came.down.from.uphill There uphill from him two young women came down. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full textxás pámita îin kunsíitvat úpeenti xáyfaat mâam kúuk ikuníhivraa then who TOPIC they.stole.him he.told.him don't! uphill to.there you.shoot.over! And the one who stole him told him, "Don't shoot up over the hill!" Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full textxás mâam kúuk ukúniihva yiimúsich vúra then uphill to.there he.shot little.ways.off Intensive So he shot a little ways uphillward. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full textpúya mâam kanéepeentih axicha'êechkeepuhich níkrii and.so uphill they.were.telling.me kidnapped.child I.am "Say, I'm told uphill, I'm a kidnapped child!" Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full textpúyava patóo kvíripuni pa'áthiith tóo kuuyva mâam xás tupikyívish you.see when.he.had he.ran.downhill the.hazel.branches he.had strike uphill then he.fell.back.down And when he ran downhill, he hit the hazel branches, and he fell back to the ground uphill. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full textmâam patusúpaaha maruk too trâa tuvásip uphill when.it.had.become.day uphill he.PERF look.upward it.rose When day broke, he looked uphill and it was rising uphill. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Playkumáam vúra hôoy upíip poo'aramsîip tuvásip uphill.from Intensive where he.said where.it.starts.out it.rose He comes from somewhere up in the hills, he said, he comes up from there. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Playpayêem vúra hôoyva u'aramsîiprivtih pu'aapunmuti uxúti kumâam vúra upíip poo'aramsîiprivtih now Intensive somewhere it.came.from.there he.doesn't.know he.was.thinking uphill Intensive he.said that.it.comes.from He doesn't even know where it comes from, he was thinking it just came from up in the hill there. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
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