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kêech big, large
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lexicon ID #3779 | revised Mar 09 2015
kêech • ADJ • big, large
| Derivation: | -kaam-ich |
| -large-DIM |
Derivatives (8)
kêechas "big, large (plural)"
kêechha "to be big"
kêechich "bigger"
keechíkyav "sweetheart, friend"
kéechriik "big place"
kêeshich "bigger"
kêeshichasaha "to be bigger"
keech'íihyan "Preston Peak"
Source: WB 846.1, p.359
Note: Never occurs in compounds, where -kaam is used instead. The plural is kêechas; the diminutive is kêechich.
- pukêechhiruravhara. It's not too big. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 329]
- xás îikam kêech vúra pakuntátuyshur. And outside they swept off a big space. [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 065]
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kâan xas kêechas péeshpuk cháavura áxxak nimma.
And right there I found two big gold nuggets.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
kêechas vúra patakâakaa.
The quails are big.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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pakêechas vúra tá kuníkxiipshur.
The big ones flew away.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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xás vúra uum vaa káan xás uupíipha vúra uum kêech papúufich uum, vúra uum máath.
So [when he got] there, he said? the deer was really big, it was really heavy.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás vaa vúra uum kêech káru.
And it was really big.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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xás vúra vaa kêech papúufich.
It was a big deer.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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" vúra uum kêech papúufich.
"It was a big deer.Source: Vina Smith, I'll Never Forget Those Days (VS-22) | read full text
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pukêechhara.
It is not big.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about jewelry, hair, and clothes (VS-25) | read full text
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yáv vúra yâamach payupsítanach,
xás vúra uum pakêech úkyav,
xás vúra uum imusakêem.
She was pretty as a baby, but after a while, when she got bigger, she looked ugly.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | 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 -
xás úuth upiytúykaanva páyuux,
uknamxánahich mú'uuthkam,
víri vaa kumá'ii pakêech usirishkírahitih.
And he kicked the dirt out in the river, out from uknamxánahich, that's why there's a big bar (there).Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
vúra yítha kéech.
There's one real big one.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
vaa kíri ni'av,
pakéech."
Let me eat that one, the big one!"Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás káan ás utháaniv,
kéech.
And a rock lay there, a big one.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
pâanpay vúra tá kêech pa'avansáxiich.
After a while the boy (living with his kidnappers) got big.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
yána vúra kêech tu'uh.
He saw that it had risen high.Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text