Ararahih'urípih
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payváheem (variant payváhiim) nowadays

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4721 | revised Mar 01 2016

payváheem • N • nowadays Variant: payvêem.

Variant payváhiim (lexicon ID #7820)

Derivation:  pay vaheem
this vaheem

Source: WB 1104.4, p.372

Note: Perh. equiv. to payêem 'now'.

  • paachvíiv uum vúra payváheem vúra kári. The bird, even now, still (does that). [Reference: DeA & F 4: Land of the Dead 145]
  • víriva payváheem vúra kári káan nipiktamkurihvankôoti. So nowadays I still always go back panning there. [Reference: DF 05: Finding Gold 013]

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  1. viriva    payváaheem    vura    kári    kaan    nipiktamkurihvankôoti   
    so    nowadays    Intensive    then    there    I.am.going.back.to.there.to.pan.for.gold   
    Even now I go back and pan at that place.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text

  2. víri    payváheem    vúra    kárivarih    uvîihiti    ikriripanpákurih   
    so    nowadays    Intensive    still    he.dislikes    Amekyaram.sweathouse.song   
    He still dislikes those songs now.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  3. pa'áraar    tupakurîihvahaak    ikriripanpákurih    márukninay    váa    xás    vúra    ukvíiptih    payváheem    váa    ukupítih   
    the.person    when.he.or.she.sings    Amekyaram.sweathouse.song    uphill.anywhere    so    then    Intensive    he.runs    nowadays    so    he.does.it   
    Whenever a person sings Amekyaram sweathouse songs in mountain places anywhere, he runs away, he does so now.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  4. váa    vúra    payváheem    úthvuuyti    pirishkaarim'áhasurar    peekriripanpákurih   
    so    Intensive    nowadays    it.is.called    grizzly.bear.driver-away    the.Amekyaram.sweathouse.song   
    It is still called grizzly-bear drive-away-medicine, those Amekyaram sweathouse songs.
    Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text

  5. víri    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 text

  6. payváhiim    váa    káan    vúra    su'    úkrii    vákay    payváhiim    vakay'ámtaapkunish    yúxnaam    su'    úkrii   
    nowadays    so    there    Intensive    inside    she.lives    worm    nowadays    worm    sand    inside    she.lives   
    Now she lives in there, she's a bug now, a gray bug, lives in the sand.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  7. xás    vaa    vúra    payváheem    pamupathakhíram    káan    kunmáheesh   
    then    so    Intensive    nowadays    his.kneeling-place    there    they.will.see.it   
    And nowadays his kneeling-spot can be seen there.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-25) | read full text