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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]
Sentence examples (106)
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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 -
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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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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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
pa'íish ôokmas páy yítha utháaniv.
The meat was lying all around.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
uum vúra vaa páy takunápur.
Someone is bewitching her.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
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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páy úm ivíshtaantih?
Do you like this?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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páy papûuvish upshéek.
The bag is heavy.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with words for accent (VS-10) | read full text
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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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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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yáxa páy!
Look here!Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about animals, questions (VS-14) | read full text
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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pay uum vaa kunipítih.
They are saying that.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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fâat uum pay?
What is that?Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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mah páy pasára.
Take some bread.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about making sandwiches (VS-38) | read full text
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páy uum pananítaat.
This is my mother.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about family (VS-41) | read full text
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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
púyava páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
So Coyote did that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
yánava páy fâatva utháthriinaa.
He saw something sitting in baskets.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
púyava páy uum pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
This is what Coyote did.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
xás vaa páy uum pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
And Coyote did that.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
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 -
xás hínupa páy ára tu'íinish.
And there Mankind came into existence.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
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 -
kári xás púyava páy pihnêefich ukúphaanik.
So Coyote did that.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
mâa páy pamiváfish."
Here, this is your liver!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
páy uum pumi'ífunihara."
This isn't your hair."Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
" 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 -
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 -
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 -
púyava vúra páy kóomahich.
That's all.Source: Julia Starritt, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-73) | read full text -
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 -
páy uum úuth yúrasak.
This is out at the ocean.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
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 -
páy uum úhthaam, koonmúrax.
This is a garden, nothing but corn.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 -
páy uum tiik.
These are hands.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text -
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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