Ararahih'urípih
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yaan recently, just now

Dictionary Entry
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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  1. 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 text
  2. payáan    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 text
  3. yáan    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 text
  4. kári    xás    púyava    imáan    yáan    ník    vúra    usúpaahiti    kári        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 text
  5. imáan    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 text
  6. ta'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 text
  7. yáan    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 text
  8. imáankam    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 text
  9. káruma    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 text
  10. yáan    vúra    úkxurarahitih   
    recently    Intensive    it.was.becoming.evening   
    It was just evening.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  11. púyava    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 text
  12. máh'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 text
  13. yáan    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