Ararahih'urípih
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yáfus to wear a dress; to put on a dress

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7027 | revised Feb 11 2016

yáfus • V • to wear a dress; to put on a dress

Derivatives (5)
axyusyáfus "pine-nut dress"
furaxyáfus "red satin dress"
sirikayáfus "silk"
surukamyáfus "woman's underwear, slip, underskirt of a woman's dress"
yáfus "woman's dress"

Source: WB 1650, p.399

  • cheemyáachva vúra kúkuum yíth takunipyáfus. Every once in a while they put on another dress. [Reference: KM 32.4]
  • vaa takunipyáfus. They wore those things as dresses. [Reference: WB T65.23]

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  1. xas pamúkîit upeer: " tâak pamiyáfus níxraam."
    And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.”
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  2. ta'ítam u'êeheen pamuyáfus.
    Then she gave him her dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  3. váa ta ifuchtîimich váa tápaan uxraam pamúkiit muyáfus.
    Then at last he even bet his grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  4. táay nik tá kunchífich vúra pu'ixraratihara, váa xás u'ívur pamúkiit muyáfus.
    They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  5. víri váa vúra payváhiim kári u'ívunti, pakunpáxeepanik, pamúkiit muyáfus.
    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

  6. kóova uthvuyxâahanik pamuyáfus.
    She felt so sad about her dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  7. pamuyáfus á' tóo stakúraan.
    Her dress was ripped up.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text

  8. víri vaa kunkupitih, pathakan'ávak tá kunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan.
    They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text

  9. káru taay ík vúra yáfus ikyâavish.
    And you must make many dresses.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text

  10. ta'ítam uum káru uvíkaheen káru úkyav payáfus.
    So she too wove and made the dresses.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text

  11. kári xás hâari vúra piríshriik patá kun'áhoo, pamukunyáfus tutatitítit.
    And sometimes it was a brushy place where they traveled, their dresses got torn.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text

  12. peempurávaas patuvuhvúhinaa púyava patakuníkviipvarayva púyava tá kunsíchakvutva, vaa tá kunipyáfus.
    And when they did the deerskin dance, when they carried the obsidian blades, they wore the flour bags around their waist, they put them on that way, as dresses.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text

  13. ararayáfus uum vúra táfirapu ukyâarahitih.
    The Indian dress was made of buckskin.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text

  14. payáfus uum vúra yítha vúra pufíchmaan.
    The dress was just one deerskin.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text

  15. xás pamukunyafusayêepsha vúra uum yâamach ukyâahahitih.
    And their good dresses were made pretty.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text

  16. mukunyáfus puvâaramasahara.
    Their dresses were not long.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text