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putyíinkach to defecate on
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lexicon ID #5131 | revised Nov 09 2005
putyíinkach • V • to defecate on
Source: WB 1183, p.376
- xás uxus, tîi kanpútyiinkachi. And (Coyote) thought, "I want to shit on it." [Reference: WB T14.18]
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xas uxus tîi matêe kanpútyiinkachi páy pa'asayâamachak vúra uum yâamach pa'as then he.thought let... later let.me.defecate.on.it this on.the.pretty.rock Intensive 3.SG pretty the.rock Then he thought: "Let me do just a little bit of job on this nice rock, it looks so nice." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textxas upútyiinkach then he.defecated.on.it Then he did just a little bit of job on it. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full texttîi pay kich xas kumatêeshich kuna kanpútyiinkachi let... this only then still.more in.addition let.me.defecate.on.it Let me do a little bit more of job on it." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full textxás uxus tîi kanpútyiinkachi then he.thinks let... let.me.defecate.on.it And he thought, "Let me defecate on it!" Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full textxás upímuustih patupútyiinkach then he.looks.at.it.again his.having.defecated.on.it And he looked at it again, when he had defecated on it. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full textkári xás ta'ítam kúkuum upútyiinkachheen kumatêeshich then then so again he.defecated.on.it still.more And so he defecated on it again, a little more. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text