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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 (34)
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yée ôok pámit ni'ákunvarat.
Not long ago I was out hunting.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
papishyavpîish mit ni'ákunvarat.
Last fall I went on a hunting trip.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
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 -
vúra ník mít vaa kun'aapúnmutihat pa'úhish u'ífeesh
They Knew That Seeds Will GrowSource: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text -
kúna vúra mít puhári úhish ipshâanmutihaphat pa'úhish u'ífeesh
But They Never Packed Seeds HomeSource: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text -
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 -
ipít mít usnúrat.
It thundered yesterday.Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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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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vúra mít yâamachas.
They were once pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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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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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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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
mít kunípaat '
kahyúras tuvâaram.'
They said he had left for Klamath Lakes.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
mít kunípaat '
tóo síinvar kahyúras.'"
They said he drowned at Klamath Lakes."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
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 -
yakún puxáy vúra mít ishkáxishrihmathat.
You see, they couldn't stop it.Source: Mamie Offield, "Victory Over Fire" (WB_KL-45) | read full text -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
xás mít vaa káan asiktávaan uhróot.
He hired a woman there.Source: Emily Donahue, "Professor Gifford's Visit" (WB_KL-88) | read full text -
hári tá mít ukpákishrihat pa'ípaha.
He cut down a tree sometime (recently).Source: Julia Starritt, "Smoke" (WB_KL-90) | read full text