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-yâach / -yaach Intensive, emphatic; carries the meaning "good and ..., exactly, more, quite, rather."
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6990 | revised Nov 14 2014
-yâach / -yaach • SUFF • Intensive, emphatic; carries the meaning "good and ..., exactly, more, quite, rather."
| Derivation: | yav-ach |
| good-DIM |
Derivatives (36; show derivatives)
Source: WB G621.20
Note: Unaccented alternant occurs after monosyllables.
- á'yaach u'íihya. It's (standing) straight up (said of a vertical housepost). [Reference: JPH 15:778]
Sentence examples (5)
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karu kâakum kumatupichas-háyaachas xakinivki'itráhyar chávura nimma koovura.
Then there were a lot of smaller ones, so that in the end I had seventy dollars in all.Source: Benonie Harrie, "How I Found Gold" (DAF_KT-05b) | read full text -
yíth kúna tá nikyâasip,
tuupichasyâach.
I start another one, with smaller sticks.Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play -
ninivási vúra vitkiniyâach tah.
My back is a regular ridge by now.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
kári xás tupikyaanáyaachha.
And he finished it good.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
hínupa yúpyaach tu'ákithtir.
There she threw it smack in his eye.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full text