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tinihyâach quite wide
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lexicon ID #6072 | revised Nov 03 2015
tinihyâach • ADJ • quite wide
| Derivation: | tírih-yâach | (= tírih yav-ach) |
| wide-Intensive | (= wide good-DIM) |
Source: JPH "Grammar" 136
Sentence examples (4)
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peheerahásaan tiníhyaachas,
vaa pakun'ihêeratih.
The tobacco leaves are widish ones; those are what they smoke.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
pirishyâamachas,
xútnahichas,
tinihyâachas,
ipaníchihsha,
tíimxuuskunishas.
They are nice leaves, thin [sheetlike], not very wide, sharp pointed, smooth-edged.Source: Phoebe Maddux, Leaf (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.h) | read full text -
xás pamusípnuuk uum ipshûunkinich,
kúna vúra tinihyâach,
káan u'uuchnímach.
And his storage basket was short, but it was sort of wide, it was squatting there.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pa'avansatinihyâach upíip
" chími naa paniní'aan kiikuníhuraa."
Then the little flat man said, "Shoot my string up!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text