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yukun you see...
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lexicon ID #7157 | revised Nov 14 2014
yukun • PCL • you see... Variant: yakun.
Derivation: | yána kun |
visible meaning.unknown |
Source: WB 1657.1, p.400
- yukún koovúra vaa umúsahiti pananú'uup. Everything looks like our things. [Reference: WB 16: Coyote Marries His Own Daughter 036]
- purakára vúra áama aamtíheeshara, yukún tanupíshunva pa'áama. Nobody will eat salmon, we have hidden the salmon. [Reference: WB 17: Coyote Gives Salmon 002]
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yúkun pee'itxâarihvahaak ôok ipishkákishriheesh you.see if.you.open.your.eyes here you.will.land.back If you open your eyes, you will land back here again. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full textyukún peethívthaaneen vúra thúkinkunish xás kúnish ûumukich you.see the.earth Intensive blue-green then sort.of near The earth is so green and kind of close. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full textxás pâanpay xás uxús naa nixúti napikshayvûunishti yukún koovúra vaa umúsahiti panunú'uup káru uum vúra vaa umúsahiti panini'áka then after.while then she.thinks 1sg. I.am.thinking he.is.lying.to.me you.see all that it.looks.like our.possessions also 3.SG Intensive that he.looks.like my.father Then after a while she thought, "I think he's deceiving me, everything looks like our things, and he looks just like my father." Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full textkári xás kunpiip púra kára vúra áama aamtíheeshara yúkun tá nupíshunva pa'áama then then they.say nobody Intensive salmon will.not.eat you.see PERF we.hide the.salmon And they said, "Nobody will eat salmon, we have hidden the salmon." Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full textyukún vaa káan á' u'íithra murax'ipaha'ípan you.see that there above he.is.sitting slippery.tree.top He's up there at the top of a slippery tree." Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full textyukún yíiv á' utásunihtihanik pa'íin you.see far above was.like.a.vertical.barrier the.falls You see, the falls were (like) a barrier (reaching) a long ways up. Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full textta'ítam koovúra pakeemishatunvêechas kunikyáviichvunaa yukún vaa káan kunpávyiihmeesh patupíshyaavpa so all the.little.wild.animals they.work you.see that there they.go.back.to when.it.is.winter So all the little wild animals worked, you see they were going to come back there when it was winter. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full textyukún nanihrôohas húukava tá kun'uum you.see my.wives to.somewhere PERF they.went.there You see, my wives have gone somewhere." Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full textîikam tá kunpirukûurish yukún vaa kunkupitih fúrax mukunpikshipíkmath outdoors PERF they.sit.down.again you.see so they.are.doing.it woodpecker.head their.sun-shades They sit down again outdoors; you see, they do this; their sun-shades are of woodpecker heads. Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full textyukún uum káru ishímfir asaxêevar veekxaréeyav you.see 3.SG also brave mossy its.spirit You see, Baldy Peak Spirit was tough too. Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full textyukún vaa xákaan u'iifshípreenik pamutákasar you.see that with.(one.person) he.had.grown.up his.shinny-tossel You see, he had grown up with that tossel. Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full textyukún uum ikxareeyaatâapas u'iifshípreenik iknûumin veekxaréeyav you.see 3.SG real.spirit.person he.had.grown.up Burrill.Peak.spirit You see, Burrill Peak Spirit had grown up into a real ikxaréeyav. Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full textyukún naa ík káru vaa nikupheesh pookúphaanik peeknûumin veekxaréeyav you.see 1sg. must also that I.will.do as.he.did the.Burrill.Peak.Spirit You see, I must also do that way, as Burrill Peak Spirit did. Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full textyukun ithivthaaneentaaníha you.see world.coming.to.an.end You see, (it will be) the end of the world. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full textyukún vúra uum xára tá kun'íchunva áasiv you.see Intensive 3.SG long.time PERF they.hid.themselves cave You see, (the couple) had hid for a long time in a cave. Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full textyukún vaa kunípeenti yumaará'aama achvuun you.see so they.call.it hookbill.salmon hookbill.salmon You see, they call dog salmon "dead-man's salmon." Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text