Ararahih'urípih
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mit / míta near past (e.g. yesterday)

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4248 | revised Oct 31 2014

mit / míta PCL • near past (e.g. yesterday)

Derivatives (2)
mitva "former; previous"
támit "already in the past"

Source: WB 977, p.367

Note: Contrast ip 'past (e.g. this morning)'.

  • tamít kunipêerat. They told him (yesterday). [Reference: WB files]


Sentence examples (39)

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  1. yée ôok pámit ni'ákunvarat.
    Not long ago I was out hunting.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  2. itnoopámahich ník kana'êeh xás váa káru vúra pa'íshpuk púvaxay kana'êehap káruma chímiheesh ithakûusrah véenik mit paniykáranaat.
    They would scarcely give me five dollars apiece for them. And even that money they haven't paid me yet, and it's almost a month since I killed them.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text
  3. ithâan mit masúruk saamváruk níshxaaytihat.
    Once I went up the creek, fishing with hook and line.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text
  4. papishyavpîish mit ni'ákunvarat.
    Last fall I went on a hunting trip.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text
  5. támit u'ívat."
    "He died."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  6. nanittáat mít upôovôo?ihat, pafâat vúrava úuxhaak: " iheeraháxiit kyúnish kyóo uux."
    My mother used to say when anything tasted bad: "It tastes as bad as green tobacco."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Sense Characteristics (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.a) | read full text
  7. pámitva iheeraha'uhthamhíramhanik
    former tobacco plot
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text
  8. vúra ník mít vaa kun'aapúnmutihat pa'úhish u'ífeesh
    They Knew That Seeds Will Grow
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  9. kúna vúra mít puhári úhish ipshâanmutihaphat pa'úhish u'ífeesh
    But They Never Packed Seeds Home
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text
  10. vaa vúra kich pumít kupítihaphat, pumít ikxáyxaytihaphat.
    The only thing they did not do was to work on the ground.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full text
  11. ipít mít usnúrat.
    It thundered yesterday.
    Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
    Spoken by Lucille Albers | Download | Play
  12. pananikústaan vúra mít uum yâamach.
    My sister was pretty (long ago).
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  13. vúra mít yâamachas.
    They were once pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  14. pananikústaansa vúra mít uum yâamachas.
    My sisters were once pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  15. manâa vaa pa'ávansa vúra vaa puxích mít vúra itíhaan vúra ikpíhan.
    Maybe (you can say) that the man was always strong.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  16. ithâan mít káru naa kári nîinamich, nanítaat upiip, " sáruk nivâarameesh, ka'tim'íin.
    Once, I was also still little, my mother said, "I'm going downhill, to Katimin.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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  17. xás kanéepeenti, " pamichíshiih mít uum êen úkuuyvanik.
    And they were telling me, "A board fell on your dog.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text
  18. manâa naa mít káru nîinamich itíhaan áhup nukyâati, pananitípa xákaan, áhup núkpaakti.
    Well, also when I was little, we were always gathering wood, my brother and I, we were chopping wood.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text
  19. ayu’âach púfaat pa'ávansa iináak, panini'ákah uum támit u'ívat.
    It was because there was no man in the house, my father had died.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Working (VSu-04) | read full text
  20. xás hâari tá kunipíthvuuymath míta pakêemish múthvuy.
    Sometimes they name someone again with the name of the deceased.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Swearing" (WB_KL-0) | read full text
  21. mít kunípaat ' káruk úuth tu'íimkar.'"
    They said he drowned in the river upriver."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  22. káruk tá kunpávyiihma, tusupaháyaachha, pámita káan kun'arámsiiprintih.
    They arrived back upriver where they came from, it was mid-morning.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text
  23. úma vaa ukúphaanik, pámitva ithéeshyav uparíshriihva antunvêech.
    That's what he had done, he twined little strings the previous winter.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  24. mít kunípaat ' kahyúras tuvâaram.'
    They said he had left for Klamath Lakes.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  25. mít kunípaat ' tóo síinvar kahyúras.'"
    They said he drowned at Klamath Lakes."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  26. káan pihnêefich úkrii, muyeeripáxvu xákaan kun'iin, muhrôoha támit u'ívat.
    Coyote lived there, he and his daughter lived, his wife had died.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  27. xás kúkuum vaa vúra káan u'ípahoo míta kûukam u'arávuukat.
    And she traveled again the way she had come there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  28. yakún puxáy vúra mít ishkáxishrihmathat.
    You see, they couldn't stop it.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text
  29. " ii! ninikeechíkyav, mít tá nupáxviiphat.
    "Oh, my sweetheart! we quarreled.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  30. káru mit kunvîihitihat, pámit umusankôotihat.
    And they had disliked him, when he had gone to see her.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text
  31. vaa ík káan i'uumêesh pámita nu'ínoohvootihirak pa'aasívak.
    You must go there where we used to stay, in the cave.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  32. xás pámita îin kunsíitvat úpeenti " xáyfaat mâam kúuk ikuníhivraa."
    And the one who stole him told him, "Don't shoot up over the hill!"
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text
  33. nanítaat mít kin'ípeentihat, " tuyshipnee'ípanich uum saripkêemshas."
    My mother used to tell us, "They are bad hazel sticks on the hilltop."
    Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text
  34. vaa mít kári uum nu'ahíshriihvutihat
    We used to set fires (to encourage the growth of the brush).
    Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text
  35. Mister Gifford pishíich mít ka'tim'îin u'úumat.
    Mr. Gifford went first to Katimin.
    Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text
  36. xás mít vaa káan asiktávaan uhróot.
    He hired a woman there.
    Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text
  37. hári tá mít ukpákishrihat pa'ípaha.
    He cut down a tree sometime (recently).
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Smoke" (WB_KL-90) | read full text