Ararahih'urípih
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lexicon ID #4721 | revised Mar 01 2016

payváheem • N • nowadays Variant: payvêem.

Variant payváhiim (lexicon ID #7820)

Derivation:  pay vaheem
this vaheem

Source: WB 1104.4, p.372

Note: Perh. equiv. to payêem 'now'.

  • paachvíiv uum vúra payváheem vúra kári. The bird, even now, still (does that). [Reference: DeA & F 4: Land of the Dead 145]
  • víriva payváheem vúra kári káan nipiktamkurihvankôoti. So nowadays I still always go back panning there. [Reference: DF 05: Finding Gold 013]

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  1. víri    váa    vúra    payváhiim    kári    u'ívunti    pakunpáxeepanik    pamúkiit    muyáfus   
    so    so    Intensive    nowadays    then    he.is.crying    they.won.it.from.him    his.grandmother    her.dress   
    He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  2. payváhiim    váa    káan    vúra    su'    úkrii    vákay    payváhiim    vakay'ámtaapkunish    yúxnaam    su'    úkrii   
    nowadays    so    there    Intensive    inside    she.lives    worm    nowadays    worm    sand    inside    she.lives   
    Now she lives in there, she's a bug now, a gray bug, lives in the sand.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text