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súpaah day
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5468 | revised Dec 06 2015
súpaah • N • day
Derivatives (5)
ipshúpaahpa "to be the ...th day of the week"
itaharasúpaah "ten days"
ithasúpaah "all day"
súpaaha "to become day"
supáh'aachip "noon"
Source: WB 1256, p.381
Note: Loc. is supáahak 'in the daytime' (KS, a'iknêechhan, 128)
Sentence examples (13)
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chavúra axaksúpaa kaan sú' kun'áraarahitih.
And kept them there two days.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
xas uum vúra hitíhaan kumasúpaa poopȋiriihiti pamu'ávan paxuun.
She was saving acorn soup all the time every day for her man.Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
misúpaah yav!
Happy birthday!Source: Lucille Albers, Sentences about acorns, weather (LA-02) | read full text
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yánava pakúusrah tóokfuk súpaah!
Look the sun is getting up!Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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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 -
vúra uum hitíhaan kumasúpaa póomuusti pápikvas.
She looked at the headdress-feather every day (while he was gone).Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
axaksúpaa ávipux.
He was without food for two days.Source: Chester Pepper, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-47) | read full text -
kári xás kun'áhoo,
vúra uum taay súpaa pakun'áhoo.
And they traveled, it was many days that they traveled.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
axaksúpaa tupmúsan pamutátapva.
Every two days they would go look at their traps.Source: Maggie Charley, "Indian Food" (WB_KL-68) | read full text -
itroopatishamnihasúpaah sú' úkrii ikmaháchraam.
He lived in the sweat-house for nine days.Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
chítik vúra tá itroopatishamnihasúpaa tá kunkúnih kári xás tupihyárihish.
Finally they had done target-shooting for nine days, and then (the priest) stood still (the priest remains standing all night).Source: Emily Donahue, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-82) | read full text -
axaksúpaa asuuxáras nu'íin káru ithéekxaram.
We two stayed fasting for two days and a night.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
itroopasúpaa iinâak nu'áraarahiti ikmaháchraam.
We all lived in the sweathouse for five days.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text