Ararahih'urípih
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yâamach pretty, nice

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7000 | revised Feb 09 2016

yâamach ADJ • pretty, nice

Derivation yav-ach
good-DIM

Derivatives (6)
sishanayâamach "pretty one having a penis, a name given to Coyote"
tapasyâamach "very nice"
yâamachich "pretty (dimin.)"
yáamachkar "woman's name"
yaamachkáree "a woman's name, Mary Ike"
yaamáchnihich "nice place"

Source: WB 1665.3, p.400

Note: The plur. is yâamachas; the dimin. is yâamachich. Long vowel is never shortened.

  • miník kiikxúrikeeshap, yâamach kiikyâavishap. I'll paint your faces, I'll make you pretty. [Reference: WB T5.137]
  • asayaamach'íshara ôok páy utháaniv. The little stick was pretty. [Reference: WB 14: Coyote Eats His Own Excrement 015]


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  1. vúra yâamach.
    It looks nice.
    Source: Charlie Thom, Sr., Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (CT-01) | read full text
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  2. " ée, if ôok asayâamach utháaniv."
    "Oh, what a nice looking rock lying here."
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  3. xas u'êechip, pa'as, pa'asayâamach.
    Then he picked it up, that rock, that pretty rock.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text
  4. 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
  5. xás upíip: "ahúpyaamach vúra kan'árihish.
    Then he said: "I will be a nice-looking piece of wood.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text
  6. 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
  7. iim yâamach.
    You're beautiful.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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  8. pananixvâah uum yâamach.
    I have a pretty head.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  9. yâamach míxvaah.
    Your head is pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about possession, locatives; words for consonants and accent (VS-08) | read full text
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  10. pananikústaan uum yâamach.
    My sister is pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  11. pananikústaan uum yâamachheesh.
    My sister will be pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  12. pananikústaan uum yâamach payêem.
    My sister is pretty now.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  13. pananikústaan vúra mít uum yâamach.
    My sister was pretty (long ago).
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  14. pananikústaan uum payêem puyâamachhara.
    My sister is not pretty now.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  15. koovúra pananikústaan uum yâamachas.
    My sisters are all pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  16. koovúra pananikústaan vúra yâamachas.
    All my sisters are pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  17. pananikústaan koovúra yâamachas.
    My sisters are all pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  18. koovúra yâamachasheesh.
    They will all be pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  19. pananikústaansa vúra yâamachas payêem.
    My sisters are pretty now.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  20. vúra mít yâamachas.
    They were once pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  21. pananikústaansa vúra mít uum yâamachas.
    My sisters were once pretty.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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  22. koovúra yâamachas pananúvuup.
    We all have pretty necks.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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  23. yáv vúra yâamach payupsítanach, xás vúra uum pakêech úkyav, xás vúra uum imusakêem.
    She was pretty as a baby, but after a while, when she got bigger, she looked ugly.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
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  24. xás vúra uum yâamach pagravy núkyav, vúra just nice!
    And we made nice gravy, really just nice!
    Source: Violet Super, Violet Cooking (VSu-01) | read full text
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  25. kári xás upiip, " sah'ahupyâamach kanpárihish."
    And he said, "Let me turn into a pretty piece of driftwood!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  26. kári xás sah'ahupyâamach vaa upárihish.
    And he turned into a pretty piece of driftwood.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  27. oo! yáxa kóo yâamach sâam pasah'áhup."
    Oh, look at what a pretty piece of driftwood downhill!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-01) | read full text
  28. xás pihnêefich uxús " chími ahupyâamach kanpárihish.
    And Coyote thought, "Let me become a pretty stick!
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  29. " ooo!" pa'asiktávaansa kunpiip, " ooo! yáxa páykuuk kóo ahupyâamach uthivrúhuthunatih.
    "Oh," the women said, "oh, look there, such a pretty stick is floating around.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  30. xás yítha upíip " ooo! yáxa kóo ahupyâamach tuthívruuhvarak."
    And one said, "Oh, look, such a pretty stick has floated down from upstream!"
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  31. xás tóo píip " ahupyâamach kanpárihish.
    And he said, "Let me become a pretty stick.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  32. púyava tá kunmah, pa'ahupyâamach tuthívruuhvarak.
    Then they saw it, the pretty stick floating down from upriver.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  33. xás tá kunpíip " yáxa pa'ahupyâamach tuthívruuhvarak.
    And they said, "Look at the pretty stick floating down!
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text
  34. " ahupyâamach vúra nipárihishrih."
    (He said), "Let me turn into a pretty stick."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  35. kári xás kunmah, tuthívruuhvarak pa'ahupyâamach.
    And they saw it, the pretty stick floated down from upriver.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  36. miník kiikxúrikeeshap, yâamach kiikyâavishap."
    I'll paint you, I'll make you pretty!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text
  37. xás uxus, " íf yâamach pamupákurih.
    And he thought, "His song is really pretty.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text
  38. kári xás upíip " íf yâamach mikunpákurih."
    And he said, "Your song is really pretty!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text
  39. yâamach vúra kiikyâavishap."
    I'll make you pretty."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  40. xás " yâamachas kumúsahitih."
    And (he said), "You look pretty."
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text
  41. 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
  42. pa'ás u'êechip, asayâamach.
    He picked up the rock, the pretty rock.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text
  43. kári xás uxus, " íf yâamach.
    And he thought, "It's really pretty!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text
  44. xás payeeripáxvu tóo kêechha, xás yâamach tu'íifship.
    And the girl got big, and she grew up pretty.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text
  45. xás vúra uum yâamach mu'asiktaván'aramah.
    And her female child was pretty.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text
  46. káruma ník apxanyâamachas tá kunpithxunátiihva, yaas'arara'îin pu'ithváaftiheeshap."
    The fact is, (the others) wear pretty caps, (but) Mankind won't have much use for them.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-30) | read full text
  47. koovúra yâamachas pamukun'ápxaan.
    All their caps were pretty.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text
  48. kári xás vúra uum yâamach úkyav, vúra úkyav.
    And he fixed them pretty, he fixed them.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  49. kári xás uxús papirishkâarim. " púya íf yâamach poo'iikívtih.
    And Grizzly thought, "My, he's really wearing a pretty necklace!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  50. xás upíip papirishkâarim, " íf yâamach pee'iikívtih."
    And Grizzly said, "You're really wearing a pretty necklace!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text
  51. vúra yâamach mu'ifápiit.
    His daughter was pretty.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text
  52. xás kunipéer, " púya íf yâamach peepâanvutih.
    And they said to (Horsefly), "My, your face is painted pretty!
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text
  53. kári xás xára vúra yâamach kunkupá'iinahitih.
    And they lived nicely for a long time.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text
  54. chavúra kun'uum, vúra uum yâamach peethívthaaneen, kípa thúkin.
    Finally they arrived, the country was beautiful and green.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text
  55. yâamach tá kunipmahóonkoon.
    They felt good.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text
  56. xás pamukunyafusayêepsha vúra uum yâamach ukyâahahitih.
    And their good dresses were made pretty.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text