Ararahih'urípih
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yav good; well

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7049 | revised Feb 09 2016

yav • ADJ • good; well

Derivatives (88; show derivatives)

Source: WB 1665, p.400; TK xxxiv.28

Note: The irregular plural is yêepsha(s) 'good ones'.

  • púya íf yáv tani'asiktávaanhiti. What a good wife I have married! [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 031]
  • puyáahirurav kupeekyáahitihara. It doesn't work too well. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 330]

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  1. yav   
    good   
    Good.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  2. pa'ishkêesh    yáv    umúsahitih   
    the.river    good    it.looks.good   
    The river looks good.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  3. yáv    pa'ikxáram   
    good    the.night   
    Good night.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  4. koovúra    yáv   
    all    good   
    Everything was good.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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  5. xas    upíip    "pihnîich    tharampukayaa'íshara    ikyâaheen   
    then    he.said    old.man    extremely.good.acorn.soup    you.made.it   
    (One of the boys) said, "Old man, that's awfully good mush you fixed today!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  6. xas    kun'ipêer    "papihníich    íp    nik    nuxusat    tharampukayaa'íshara   
    then    they.said    old.man    PAST    a.little    we.thought    extremely.good.acorn.soup   
    Then one of them said, "Old man, we have been thinking about what a good cook you are!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  7. víri    manâa    vaa    yav    pavaa    ivíiktihaak   
    so    maybe    so    good    pavaa    that.you.weave   
    Well, it's good that you weave that.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  8. vúra    uum    yav    it comes out nice   
    Intensive    3.SG    good    it comes out nice   
    It's just fine, it comes out nice.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  9. vaa    yáv    nipmahóonkoonati    vúra    pamáh'iit   
    so    good    I.feel    Intensive    in.the.morning   
    I feel good in the morning.
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  10. xás    vúra    áv    kúnish    vaa    puyávhara    peepihnîichha   
    then    Intensive    food    sort.of    so    not.good    if.you.become.an.old.man   
    Lots of food it's not good if you become an old man.
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  11. kári    xas    sápxiit    úpaanik    "payáv    îin    ná'aamtiheesh   
    then    then    steelhead    long.ago.he.said    that.a.good.person    TOPIC    he.will.eat.me   
    Then Steelhead said: “A good person will eat me.”
    Source: Yaas, "How Fish were Transformed" (JPH_KT-07) | read full text

  12. vaa    tá    kunpîip    pa'amtápyuux    ník    yav   
    that    PERF    they.think    the.ashy.potato    a.little    good   
    They thought the ashy earth is good enough.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text

  13. vaa    vúra    ník    kun'áapunmutihanik    káru    vaa    uum    yáv    papírish    ávahkam    kunithyúruthunatihaak    patá    kunpúhthaampimarahaak   
    so    Intensive    a.little    they.knew.it.long.ago    also    so    3.SG    good    the.foliage    over    when.they.drag.it.around    that.has    when.they.finish.gardening   
    They also knew that it was good to drag a bush around on the top after sowing.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text

  14. vaa    vúra    ník    káru    kunáapunmutihanik    vaa    uum    yáv    papírish    kunvítriptihaak   
    so    Intensive    a.little    also    they.knew.it.long.ago    so    3.SG    good    the.foliage    that.they.pulled.it.up   
    And they also knew that it was good to pull out weeds.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text

  15. misúpaah    yav   
    your.day    good   
    Happy birthday!
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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  16. puxích    íp    neekvúrishrihat    máh’iit    payêem    uum    yáv    nipmahóonkoonatih.   
    very.much    PAST    I.was.tired    morning    now    3.SG    good    I.am.feeling   
    I was tired this morning, but now I am feeling good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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  17. payêem    uum    yáv    nipmahóonkoonatih.   
    now    3.SG    good    I.am.feeling   
    Now I am feeling good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-04) | read full text
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  18. púyav    nipmahoonkoonatihara   
    not.good    I.am.not.feeling   
    There is something wrong with me.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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  19. púyav    panéepmahoonkoonatihara   
    not.good    I.am.feeling.(something.negative)   
    I am not feeling well.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-05) | read full text
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  20. puyáv    nipmahóonkoonatih    papúsihich    îikam    tuvâaram   
    not.good    I.am.feeling    that.cat    outdoors    it.went   
    I am sad because the cat has gone outside.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about personal states (VS-06) | read full text
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  21. vaa    yáv    paníkpuuhtih   
    that    good    I.am.swimming   
    I am swimming well.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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  22. pa'ápsuun    káru    pa'áan    xákaan    vúra    yav   
    the.snake    also    the.rope    both    Intensive    good   
    The snake is as long as the rope. (The snake and the rope are both good)
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  23. Tu'áapunma    uumkun    yav   
    he.knows.it    they    good   
    He knows they're good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  24. Yáv    tóo    mah   
    good    he.does    see   
    He sees that they're good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  25. Xás    vúra    uum    paxanchíifich    vúra    uum    yav    patóo    pmahóonkoon   
    then    Intensive    3.SG    the.frog    Intensive    3.SG    good    that.he.PERF    feel   
    And the frog, he's feeling really good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  26. naa    vúra    yav   
    1sg.    Intensive    good   
    I'm just fine.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  27. vúra    yav   
    Intensive    good   
    I'm just fine.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  28. yáv    umúsahiti    pa'ishkéesh   
    good    it.looks.like    the.river   
    The river looks good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  29. peeshkêesh    yáv    umúsahitih   
    the.river    good    it.looks.like   
    The river looks good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  30. peeshkêesh    vúra    yáv    umúsahitih   
    the.river    Intensive    good    it.looks.like   
    The river looks good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20a) | read full text
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  31. yáv    uum    imníshaan    um   
    good    3.SG    cook    or   
    Is he a good cook?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  32. vaa    vúra    yav   
    that    Intensive    good   
    That's good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  33. yav   
    good   
    Good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  34. yáv    pamífyiiv   
    good    your.friend   
    Your friend is good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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  35. vúra    puyávhara    panani'ífunih   
    Intensive    no.good    my.hair   
    My hair is not good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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  36. vúra    puxích    yáv    kunikyâatih   
    Intensive    very.much    good    they.are.doing   
    They really do good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
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  37. uum    vúra    yáv    vaa    kumá'ii   
    3.SG    Intensive    good    that    because.of   
    She is really good, that's why.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
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  38. uum    vúrava    yáv    vaa    kumá'ii   
    3.SG    Intensive.    good    that    because.of   
    That's why she is good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: adjectives (VS-27) | read full text
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  39. vúra    uum    yáv   
    Intensive    3.SG    good   
    It's good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  40. uum    vaa    páykuuk    vúra    uum    vaa    yav   
    3.SG    that    over.there    Intensive    3.SG    that    good   
    The one over there, she's good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  41. vúra    uum    yav   
    Intensive    3.SG    good   
    It is good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  42. pa'ípaha    vúra    yáv    tóo    kyívish   
    the.tree    Intensive    good    it.has    fall.down   
    The tree fell down good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: cooking, packing, jumping, throwing (VS-31) | read full text
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  43. vúra    uum    kúnish    puyáv    imúsahatihara   
    Intensive    3.SG    sort.of    not.good    you.are.looking   
    You don't look so good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  44. puyáv    imúsahatihara   
    not.good    you.are.looking.   
    You don't look good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  45. yáv    vúra    yâamach    payupsítanach    xás    vúra    uum        pakêech    úkyav    xás    vúra    uum    imusakêem   
    good    Intensive    pretty    the.baby    then    Intensive    3.SG    after.while    when.big    she.made?    then    Intensive    3.SG    ugly   
    She was pretty as a baby, but after a while, when she got bigger, she looked ugly.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  46. íp    u'áasishriheen    kúnish    vaa    puyáv    ipmahóonkoonatihara   
    PAST    she.laid.down    sort.of    that    not.good    you.are.not.feeling   
    She laid down, she wasn't feeling good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  47. xás    vúra    uum    yáv    neepmahóonkoonatih   
    then    Intensive    3.SG    good    I.am.feeling   
    I am feeling better.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  48. íim    yáv    ipmahóonkoonatih   
    2sg.    good    you.are.feeling   
    You are feeling better.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  49. yáv    ikyáati    papúsihich   
    good    you.are.doing    the.cat   
    You treat the cat good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  50. uum    káru    poovôonfurukati    puyáv    ipmahóonkoonatihara   
    3.SG    also    when.she.was.coming.in    not.good    she.is.not.feeling   
    And when she came in she was not feeling good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  51. îikam    paaxíitichas    kunihmárathununaatih    xas    vúra    koovúra    yáv    kunipmahóonkoonatih   
    outdoors    the.kids    they.are.running.around    then    Intensive    all    good    they.are.feeling   
    The kids are running around outside, they are all feeling happy.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  52. pûuhara    naa    nixúti    îikam    vúra    káan    kunihmárathununaatih    xás    koovúra    vaa    vúra    yáv    kunipmahóonkoonatih   
    no    1sg.    I.am.thinking    outdoors    Intensive    there    they.were.running.around    then    all    that    Intensive    good    they.are.feeling   
    No, I think they are running around there outside, they are all feeling happy.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  53. naa    vúra    nixúti    yáv    panivíiktih   
    1sg.    Intensive    I.am.thinking    good    that.I.am.weaving   
    I hope I weave well.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  54. payáv    nipmahóonkoonatih    vaa    vúra    vikáyav   
    when.good    I.am.feeling    so    Intensive    good.weaving   
    When I am happy, I weave well (the weaving is good).
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  55. yáv    nipmahóonkoonatih    xas    vúra    vaa    vikáyav    káru   
    good    I.am.feeling    then    Intensive    so    good.weaving    also   
    I am happy and the weaving is good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  56. xas    kúkuum    yáv    tá    nipíkyav   
    then    again    good    PERF    I.make.it   
    Then I did it well again.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  57. yáv    tá    nipikyâar   
    good    PERF    I.finished.it   
    I finished it well.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about weaving a hat (VS-37) | read full text
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  58. pa'axíichas    vúra    yav   
    the.kids    Intensive    good   
    The kids are good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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  59. koovúra    pa'axíitichas    vúra    yav   
    all    the.kids    Intensive    good   
    All the kids are good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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  60. yáv    kun'ipmahóonkoonatih   
    good    they.are.feeling   
    They're feeling good.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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  61. pihnêefich    yóo    kpuuhrup    kuyûum    xás    ukpúhish   
    coyote    well.he    swim.away.downstream    just.downriver    then    he.swam.ashore   
    Coyote floated downriver, he swam ashore downriver from them then.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text

  62. púra fâat    vúra    yávhanik   
    nothing    Intensive    was.good   
    Nothing was any good.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  63. chiimuuch'îin    kunxúseeranik    kíri    vaa    ukúupha    pufáat    vúra    yávheeshara   
    Lizard    he.thought.it.about.him    I.wish    so    he.does.it    nothing    Intensive    will.not.be.good   
    Lizard thought about him, "Let him do that, nothing will be any good."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  64. xás    pakéevniikich    upiip    oo!    puyávhara    papihnêefich    táay    ukupavêenahiti    papihnêefich   
    then    the.old.woman    she.says    oh!    he.is.no.good    Coyote    much    he.does.mischief    Coyote   
    And the old woman said, "Oh, Coyote's no good, he does lots of mischief!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text

  65. xás    úpeenti    pamú'aramah    kúna    vúra    yáv    peekupeekrêehitiheesh   
    then    he.is.saying.to.her    his.child    in.addition    Intensive    good    that.you.will.be.living.in.that.way   
    And he told his child, "But you will live well.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text

  66. axmáy    ík    vúra    yav   
    suddenly    must    Intensive    good   
    At one moment it would be good.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text

  67. xás    pihnîich    upiip    yôotva    íf    yáv    tá    néekyav   
    then    old.man    he.said    hurray!    truly    good    PERF    it.does.it.to.me   
    And the old man said, "Hurray, I'm really doing well.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text

  68. naa    vúra    kóo    yáv    pa'akâayva    kumayáan'iiftihan   
    1sg.    Intensive    as.much.as    good    the.anyone    any.young.man   
    "I'm just as good as any young man."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text

  69. púyava    pakachakâach    tóo    pyávpa   
    you.see    bluejay    she.now.was    well.again   
    Blue Jay was well again by now.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text

  70. vúra    uum    puharíxay    yav    kupa'áraarahitihap   
    Intensive    3.SG    never    good    they.were.not.living.in.that.way   
    They never lived well.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text

  71. vúra    yáv    pa'asiktávaan   
    Intensive    good    the.woman   
    She was a good woman.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text

  72. púyava    koovúra    uum    púxay    vúra    yíthaxay    kuhítihara    pa'áraaras    koovúra    vúra    yav    púxay    axvahkánxay   
    you.see    all    3.SG    not.yet    Intensive    not.one    he.was.not.sick    the.people    all    Intensive    good    not.yet    not.sick   
    And none of all the people was sick, they were all well, they weren't sick.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text

  73. púyava    ithahárinay    xás    tá    yav   
    you.see    a.whole.year    then    PERF    good   
    So in a year he was all right.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text

  74. xás    upiip    puyávhara    páykuuk   
    then    she.said    not.good    over.there   
    And she said, "That (woman) over there is no good.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text

  75. áraar    tóo    hvaníchviichva    páykuuk    puyávhara   
    human    she.had    tease    over.there    not.good   
    That one teases (euphemistic for "bites") people, she's no good.
    Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text

  76. vúra    fátaak    xás    yáv    u'íihya   
    Intensive    somewhere    then    good    it.stands   
    Some places (the trees) are good
    Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text