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-sa / -sas Plural of nouns
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lexicon ID #5201 | revised Oct 31 2014
-sa / -sas • SUFF • Plural of nouns Variant: -sas.
Derivatives (9)
asaxárahsa_uvêehrivirak "a placename, Allison's Lodge"
fath'úruhsa "green manzanita"
ifyayêepsha "such good ones"
-iivshas "plural"
kafíchkaamsa "a plant, coltsfoot"
kusturivnárahsa "grass sp., a type of sedge"
tivxárahsa "mule"
úruhsa "shell disk bead"
yêepsha "good (plural)"
Sentence examples (4)
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xás kári ifápiitsha kun'iin.
And two young women lived there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
kári xás pa'ifápiitsha kunpiip, " chôora êev, íshaha nuktávan."
And the young women said (to each other), "Let's go, dear, let's go get water."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | 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 -
mukunyáfus puvâaramasahara.
Their dresses were not long.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text