Ararahih'urípih
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pay this, that (referring to something designated by pointing)

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lexicon ID #4715 | revised Nov 07 2014

pay DET • this, that (referring to something designated by pointing)

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Source: WB 1104, p.372

  • fâat uum pay. What's this? [Reference: Richardson 1993:15]


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  1. xás pihnêefich upíip, " púya pay uum váah."
    Then Coyote said, "So this is all right!"
    Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text
  2. chími ôok pay ikrîishrihi!
    Sit down right here!
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  3. páy kóo paxánthiip, páy yítha kóo paxánthiip káan u'íihya.
    There's an oak tree, there's an oak tree standing there.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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  4. " fâat kumá'ii peexráratih? naa ník ôok páy níkrii."
    "What are you crying for? I'm here with you."
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., How Charlie Grew Up (CT-02) | read full text
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  5. xas kunpavyíihfuruk, xas kun'ipêer, "chu pihnîich pay miváfish."
    And then (the ten young men) came in, and they said, "Here, old man, here is your liver!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  6. xas upíip, "páy xas íp napakyâat."
    And he answered, "Oh! I just had luck with it, that's all!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  7. chavúra páy nanu'ávahkam kun'ithyúruva.
    Indeed they dragged her up into the sky.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  8. xas páy nanu'ávahkam áachipak tá kun'ithyuruva.
    And right up into the middle of the sky they dragged him along, too.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  9. pa'íish ôokmas páy yítha utháaniv.
    The meat was lying all around.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text
  10. pay hárivurava panipvâaram.
    Whenever I go back there.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  11. no? páy kích uum kunipíti, uvíiktih.
    People always say you're weaving.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  12. xás nixúti, vaa páy kip Violet ukupíti, the whole thing, vaa too sáankuri, púxay vúra fikríiptihara.
    And I thought, "This is the way Violet does it, the whole thing, she puts it in, she doesn't sort them out."
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  13. naa vúra vaa pay... I just pull out pahûutva nixúti pay koo.
    I just pull out however I think is right.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  14. víri voom péemuustihaak, ixúseesh, mâa vaa pay.
    When you look at it, you'll think, “That's it.”
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  15. chími fâat ayu'âach vúra uum vúra vaa táni'áfish, mâa vaa pay vaahyâach.
    It's because I feel it, [I think] “That's the right one!”
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  16. naa kupeenish xas, vaa pay nik koo
    And I think, “That one's right.”
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  17. Hey vaa panimáharati naa káru, Violet vaa pay...
    I copy that too, like Violet ...
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  18. ooh, chí pay kanípthiithtih.
    “Oh, I'm going to finish it.”
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  19. naníxvaah níhruuvti, níxus vaa páy ninísheesh.
    I'm using my head, I think, “I'll do like this.”
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  20. kári xas kunpiip: " chími nu'írunaa, pay uum vúra pihnîichich."
    Then they said: "Let's travel; it is some old man."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text
  21. xas uxus: " tîi matêe kanpútyiinkachi páy pa'asayâamachak, vúra uum yâamach pa'as.
    Then he thought: "Let me do just a little bit of job on this nice rock, it looks so nice."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  22. tîi pay kich xas kumatêeshich kuna kanpútyiinkachi."
    Let me do a little bit more of job on it."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  23. xás achvúun uppiip: " naa îin pukinîikyáreeshara, vaa vúra páy kyôomahich nuníshsheesh."
    Then Hookbill said: "I am not going to kill you, this is all that I'm going to do to you."
    Source: Yaas, "How Buzzard Became Bald" (JPH_KT-01b) | read full text
  24. ée, if páy ahupyâamachich."
    "Oh, what nice wood this is!"
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  25. kári xás upiip: " uum vúra vaa páy arara'îin kunxúseentih kíri âapun úyruuhriv.
    Then she said: "Someone is causing her sickness.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text
  26. uum vúra vaa páy takunápur.
    Someone is bewitching her.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text
  27. páy uum pa'áraar úmniishti pachikin'úruh.
    The man is cooking an egg.
    Source: Sonny Davis, Sentences about cooking (SD-03) | read full text
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  28. páy úm ivíshtaantih?
    Do you like this?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  29. páy papûuvish upshéek.
    The bag is heavy.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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  30. páy papûuvish vúra uum upshéek.
    The bag is very heavy.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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  31. panaa neepshéekti pay pûuvish.
    It was the bag that made me heavy.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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  32. yáxa páy!
    Look here!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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  33. páy uum pa'ápsuun vúra uum vâaram.
    This snake is the longest snake.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  34. pay uum ipshûunkinich. pay cup uum vâaram.
    That cup is smaller than this cup. (That cup is short. This cup is tall.)
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  35. pay uum pananikafih'ásip ipshûunkinich.
    My coffee cup is short.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about comparisons (VS-18) | read full text
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  36. Kúnish ipshûunkinich pay.
    It (the net) is kind of short (to catch the frog).
    Source: Vina Smith, Avansáxiich káru Chishíih káru Xanchíifich (VS-19) | read full text
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  37. páy kích kúkuum nipêesh.
    I'll say it again.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  38. páy kích pîipi.
    Say it again.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
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  39. fâat uum pay?
    What is this?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  40. xáyfaat táay ík papáy i'îinatih!
    Stop it!
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  41. páy uum pananí'av hum?
    Is this my food?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  42. pay uum vaa kunipítih.
    They are saying that.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  43. yáxa páykuuk káru apxantínihich káru pay apxantínihich káru pay apxantínihich
    Look at the white person over there and that white person and that white person.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  44. pay vúra uum uxutih iyunyúunhitih.
    He [that one] thinks you are crazy.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  45. páy ni'áveesh.
    I am going to eat that.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  46. oh vúra utátuyishrihti vaa vúra páy paporch.
    Oh, she finished sweeping the porch.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  47. ôok uum vúra taay pa'ás, púfaat páy uum pa'ípaha.
    There are many rocks, but no trees.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  48. páy uum pa'ípaha taay pásaan
    This tree has many leaves.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  49. páy uum vúra uum púfaat pásaan
    This [tree] doesn't have any leaves.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about rocks and trees. (VS-34a) | read full text
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  50. fâat uum pay?
    What is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  51. mah páy pasára.
    Take some bread.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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  52. páy uum pananítaat.
    This is my mother.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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  53. pay uum panani'ávan, Peter.
    This is my husband, Peter.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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  54. xás úpiip" uum vúra páy chu'íveesh.
    And he said, "This one is going to die.
    Source: Violet Super, Violet's Dog (VSu-03) | read full text
  55. xás uxus, " kíri páy kári vaa ni'ish."
    And he thought, "I wish I could drink that."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  56. kári xás ta'ítam páy uníshaheen.
    And he did this with it (wadded it up, shown by informant's gestures.)
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  57. púyava páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
    So Coyote did that.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  58. kári xás papishpíshi uxus, " tîi páy kan'am.
    And the yellowjacket thought, "Let me eat this."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  59. xás páy pasâam usaamvárakti u'árihroov.
    And he went upriver downhill where that flows down from upriver.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  60. yánava páy fâatva utháthriinaa.
    He saw something sitting in baskets.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  61. xás uxús " púya páy uum, payêem uum nayâavaheesh.
    And he thought, "There, now I'll get full.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  62. xás kári ta'ítam " chími kankúniihki," hínupa páy tóo kfíripriv.
    And then (he said), "Let me shoot (one)," but he missed.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  63. púyava páy uum pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
    This is what Coyote did.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  64. kári xás umah, yána ôok páy kun'íhukvunaatih.
    And he saw it, he saw they were flower-dancing right here.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  65. ta'ítam " yée naa hínupa páy uum vúra pihnêefich payûum uthívtaaptih.
    So (they said), "Well, that's Coyote who is dancing downriver!
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text
  66. vaa páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik pakáruk kahyúras uvâaramutih. kupánakanakana.
    Coyote did that, when he went upriver to Klamath Lakes. kupánakanakana.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text
  67. xás vaa páy uum pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
    And Coyote did that.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text
  68. kári xás kunpíip " nuu páy peethívthaaneen itaharâan nupíhiroopithvutih."
    And they said, "We dance around this earth ten times."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  69. xás hínupa páy ára tu'íinish.
    And there Mankind came into existence.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  70. kári xás pa'âapun tutúraayva, yee asayaamach'íshara ôok páy utháaniv.
    And when he looked around on the ground, he thought "Well, a pretty rock is lying here!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text
  71. kári xás púyava páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
    So Coyote did that.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text
  72. xás upíip " mâa páy pa'úruh.
    And he said, "Here, these are your eggs.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text
  73. kári xás upêer " mâa páy pamikinínaasich."
    And he said, "Here's your pets."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text
  74. xás kunpiip, " yée naa, íf páy paxúun amáyav."
    And they said, "Say, this is really delicious acorn soup!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  75. xás kunpiip, " arákaas, mâa páy pamiváfish."
    And they said, "Old man, here! this is your liver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  76. mâa páy pamiváfish."
    Here, this is your liver!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  77. xás upíip yítha pa'ávansa, " yee! páy fâat tá nimah.
    And one man said, "Hey, what's this I see?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  78. yáxa páy ifunihaxára paniníxuunak."
    Look, this long hair is in my acorn soup!"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  79. xás upiip, " hôoy páy tu'aramsîip pa'ifunihaxára."
    And he said, "Where did this long hair come from?"
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  80. páy uum pumi'ífunihara."
    This isn't your hair."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text
  81. ayu'âach páy pasaamnúpahitihan chí kun'íihrupaavish.
    It was because they were going to dance downriver that way the stream flows.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "Old Man Turtle Dances" (WB_KL-22) | read full text
  82. yiimúsich úhyiivti " chú páy axíich pipúniich, táay íp imafúnvaansa."
    Some distance (from home) he was shouting, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  83. kúkuum vúra úhyiv " chú páy axíich pipúniich, táay íp imafúnvaansa."
    Again he shouted, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  84. xás kunthítiv, sáruk úhyiivtih " chú páy axíich pipúniich, táay íp imafúnvaansa."
    Then they heard him, he was shouting downhill, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  85. vúrava kári úhyiivti " chú páy axíich pipúniich, táay íp imafúnvaansa."
    He was still shouting like that, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text
  86. kári xás uxús páchishii, " hôoy íf vaa páy pánukupheesh."
    And Dog thought, "We can't do it like this."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text
  87. kári xás kunpiip, " vaa páy hínupa uum pookupítiheesh."
    And they said, "That's the way (Mankind) will do it."
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full text
  88. chavúra páy peethívthaaneen thaanêen kunpiruvápiroopithva.
    Finally they went all around this world.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  89. páy peethívthaaneen thaanêen nipthivrúhiroopithvutih.
    I float around and around this world.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  90. xás pachánchaaf páy únish, pachánchaaf utaxyásur.
    So she did like this to the foam, she separated the foam with her hands.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text
  91. kári xás upéer, " páy húm mi'ífunih."
    And he said, "Is this your hair?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text
  92. " páy uum pakumá'ii axvâak ukúheesh.
    "This one is so that (a person) will have a headache.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  93. páy uum pakumá'ii pavishváan ukúheesh."
    This one will give him a stomach-ache."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text
  94. hínupa páy uum vaa ukupavêenahiti atahári.
    There (the doctor) was doing that mischief all the time.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "A Quack Doctor" (WB_KL-67) | read full text
  95. púyava vúra páy kóomahich.
    That's all.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text
  96. púyava páy uum papirish'ánav kunkupeekyâahitih.
    That’s how they made plant medicine.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sweating Doctor" (WB_KL-81) | read full text
  97. páy uum úuth yúrasak.
    This is out at the ocean.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text
  98. páy uum pichas'ípaha uvêehrimva, xás simsímtas utaaspáthahitih.
    These peach trees are standing, and there is a wire fence around.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text
  99. páy uum úhthaam, koonmúrax.
    This is a garden, nothing but corn.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text
  100. 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
  101. páy uum tiik.
    These are hands.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text
  102. púya vaa pay.
    And that's the end of it.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
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