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-kaam big, large
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lexicon ID #3668 | revised Nov 17 2014
-kaam • ADJ • big, large
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Source: WB 846, p.359
Note: Plural -kaamsa. Bound stem; occurs only in combinations, such as asákaam 'big rock'. The corresponding independent form is kêech, plural kêechas.
- xavish'úhraam uum vúra puvaaramákaamhara. An arrowwood pipe is not very long. [Reference: TK 158.34]
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xas áhkaam kun'íkyav.
And they built a big fire.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
itha'ithvákaam u'árihish
It made a big load.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
xás uxuti kunish yíim nîinamich papúufich, xás póo'uum xás vúra uum pufíchkaam.
And he thought the deer was small, but when he got there, it was a big deer.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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asákaamsa kaan xás vaa á' tá nukfukúraa.
We used to climb those big rocks out there.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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hôoy uum patasákaam?
Where is the big fence?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about spatial relations (VS-33) | read full text
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kêech,
saamvaróokaam.
It was big, a big creek.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
tu'invákaamha.
There was a big forest fire.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vúra tu'invákaamha.
There was a big forest fire.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
vúra tu'invákaamha.
There was a big forest fire.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
kári xás vaa káan tuyshipréekaam úkrii.
And a big mountain sat there.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
xás yánava tuthivtaparákaamha.
And he saw there was a big war dance.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich upíip "
thúfkaam vúra vúrunihi nani'ífuth."
So Coyote said, "Let a big creek flow down behind me!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás yurúkthuuf pookvíripma xás "
nani'ífuth thúfkaam kam'árihish."
And when he ran to Bluff Creek, then (he said) "Let it become a big creek behind me!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pa'îin kun'áharamuti xára xás kunithyárukha,
ayu'âach ishahákaam.
And those following him were a long time crossing, because there was a lot of water.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich vúra uum sípnukaam tóo thárish pakáan umáhyaaneesh.
And Coyote put a big storage basket down where they were to put it in.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás vúra patu'iinkáyaachha xás tée imnakákaam.
And when (the bark) had burned well, then there was a big coal.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
víri kún amvákaam.
There was a big salmon (in the net).Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kúkuum vúra amvákaam úykar.
Again he caught a big salmon.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás póo'uum,
víri kún amvákaam tóo thyúruripaa.
And when she arrived, there he had pulled out a big salmon.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
xás pa'avansaxichákaam utníshuk vasasúruk.
And the big boy was peeking out from under the blanket.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text -
xás kaanvári kunihmárava,
yánava ukrámkaam u'íithra.
Then they ran there, they saw a big lake lying.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
xás ikxuraráhaan poopkêevish páy nanu'ávahkam atayrámkaam
Then Evening Star was transformed into a big star in the sky.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
kári xás asiktâan kinipéer
" chími shipnúkaam kiikvîiki."
And the women were told, "Weave a big storage basket."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text -
xás áhkaam tóo kyav.
And they made a big fire.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
xás asípkaam tumáhyaan pa'éekoons.
And they put the acorns in a big soup-basket.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
púyava îikam áhkaam tá kuníkyav.
So they made a big fire outdoors.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bear Hunting" (WB_KL-71) | read full text -
xás asákaamsa mûuk tá kuniyáakoo.
And they put them on with big rocks.Source: Julia Starritt, "Soaking Acorns" (WB_KL-75) | read full text -
píshiip tá kuniptáthrip imvarámkaam.
First they strained them with a big tray-basket.Source: Julia Starritt, "Soaking Acorns" (WB_KL-75) | read full text -
xás vaa yíiv yúruk xumvaroomáruk áhkaam tóo kyav.
And he made a big fire far downriver, uphill from xumvároov.Source: Maggie Charley, "The Pikiawish at Clear Creek" (WB_KL-84) | read full text -
kuyûum amkúfkaam.
There's a big (lot of) smoke just downriver.Source: Julia Starritt, "Smoke" (WB_KL-90) | read full text -
káan tishrámkaam, xás úhthaamhitih, káru ipahá'anamahach káan u'íihya.
A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
páy uum tishrámkaam, xás utuyshíiprinahiti yiiv.
This is a big valley, and there are mountains rising far away.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text