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piyâaram / piyâaramu- (two people) to go back, return
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lexicon ID #5047 | revised Oct 31 2014
piyâaram / piyâaramu- • V • (two people) to go back, return
Source: WB 818.1, p.357
- xás vaa vúra kaan kunpithvíripship, kunpiyâaram. Then the two of them started to run back from there, they ran home. [Reference: TK 266.5]
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xas yítha upíip "náama tá niyêeripha chími piyâarami then one she.said as.for.me PERF I.am.menstruating soon let's.go.back. Then one day, one of the girls said, "Listen, I am going through puberty, let's go home!" Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textxas yítha upíip "pûuhara yaayâach papihníich núpeen tá nupiyâaram then one she.said no better the.old.man we.tell.him PERF we.are.going.back But the other said, "No, it is better to tell the old man before we go." Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textxas kun'ipêer "tá nupiyâaram then they.said PERF we.are.going.back So they went and said to him, "We are going home." Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textXás vúra tá kunpiyâaram then Intensive PERF they.two.are.going.back And they're leaving. Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playta'ítam kunpiyâaramaheen so they.went.away.again So they went away again. Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full textxás kúkuum imáan máh'iit kunpiyâaram then again tomorrow morning they.went.back And again the next day (the young men) went away in the morning. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full textkári xás pa'ípat upiip chími man nupiyâarami then then the.doe she.said soon why... let's.go.back And Doe said, "Come on, let's leave." Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full textxás kunipéer háriva peemáhaak pasáhyuux aas kích ixúseesh tá kunpiyâaramaheen then they.told.him whenever when.you.see.it the.sand water like you.will.think PERF they.went.back And they told him, "Whenever you see that the sand is wet, you will know that we've gone again." Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full textvíri kún tá kunpiyâaramaheen so meaning.unknown PERF they.went.back There they had gone away again. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full textkári xás kinipéer chími kiikpiyâarami then then they.told.them soon you.guys.go.back! Then they were told, "Go back home!" Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textta'ítam kunpiyâaramaheen so they.went.back So (the girls) went back home. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textxás máh'iit chí nupiyâarameesh xás táhpuus nupáthraamutih then morning soon we.(two).will.return then young.fir.tree we.were.wrapping.our.hair.with.it Then in the morning we were going to leave, and we wore our hair bound with fir boughs. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full textyáas tá nupáatiship tá kóo máruk tá nupiyâaram then PERF we.carried.it.back.up PERF all uphill PERF we.two.returned Then we took up our burden baskets, we went back uphill with everything. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text