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yaan recently, just now
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lexicon ID #7006 | revised Feb 09 2016
yaan • ADV • recently, just now
Derivative (1)
yáan'iiftihan "young person, esp. a young man"
Source: WB 1655, p.400
- yáan vúra u'útutrihvuti. (A bud) is about to burst. [Reference: TK 56.26]
- xás pakun'ípak, xás ivkúkam vúra yáan u'ípahooti. Then when they came back, he was just walking in through the ivkúkam. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 068a]
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yáan vúr u'íkkyusunutihach peheerahappírish recently Intensive it.is.just.pointing.up.off the.tobacco.leaves The tobacco is just starting to come up. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Morphology of the Tobacco Plant: The Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A) | read full textpayáan vúr u'íiftihaak puxxích thúkkinkunish peheeraha'íppa pachím uimtúppeeshahaak vaa kári taváttavkunish that.recently Intensive when.it.is.growing very.much blue-green the.tobacco.plant that.already when.will.be.ripe so then light-colored When it is just growing, the tobacco plant is real green, when it is already going to get ripe, it is then light-colored. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full textyáan vúr u'úruhitih recently Intensive it.is.budding It is starting in to have buds on it. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Phases of Flowering (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.j.a1') | read full textkári xás púyava imáan yáan ník vúra usúpaahiti kári tá kunpávyiihship then then you.see tomorrow recently a.little Intensive it.was.becoming.day then PERF they.went.away.again Then the next day it was just daybreak, and they left again. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full textimáan máh'iit yáan hôoy usúpaahitih púyava kunpávyiihma tomorrow morning recently where it.was.becoming.day you.see they.went.back.to.there The next morning it was just daylight here and there, then they went there. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full textta'ítam máh'iit yáan vúra usúpaahitih uvôoruraa pa'ípaha so morning recently Intensive it.was.becoming.day he.climbed.up the.tree So in the morning it was scarcely dawn, he climbed up the tree. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full textyáan vúra usúpaahitih pakéevniikich úhyiv recently Intensive it.became.day the.old.woman she.shouted It was just dawn, (and) the old woman shouted. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full textimáankam yáan vúra usúpaahitih uvâaram next.day recently Intensive it.was.becoming.day he.went The next day it was just dawn, (and) he went. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full textkáruma yáan u'áhachakvunaatih in.fact recently he.was.withholding.it.from.them The truth was that he had just been holding out on them. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full textyáan vúra úkxurarahitih recently Intensive it.was.becoming.evening It was just evening. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full textpúyava yáan ník vúra hôoyva usúpaahitiheesh you.see recently a.little Intensive somewhere it.was.going.to.become.day Then it was just about to be dawn someplace. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Bear" (WB_KL-40) | read full textmáh'iit payáan tusúpaahiti vaa kári kunvíiktih morning when.recently it.had.become.day so then they.are.weaving In the morning, when it is just dawn, they are weaving. Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full textyáan vúra usúpaahitih recently Intensive it.was.becoming.day It was just becoming day. Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text