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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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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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
iim yâamach.
You're beautiful.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions and answers (VS-01) | read full text
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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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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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pananikústaan uum yâamach.
My sister is pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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pananikústaan uum yâamachheesh.
My sister will be pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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pananikústaan uum yâamach payêem.
My sister is pretty now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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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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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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koovúra pananikústaan uum yâamachas.
My sisters are all pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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koovúra pananikústaan vúra yâamachas.
All my sisters are pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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pananikústaan koovúra yâamachas.
My sisters are all pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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koovúra yâamachasheesh.
They will all be pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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pananikústaansa vúra yâamachas payêem.
My sisters are pretty now.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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vúra mít yâamachas.
They were once pretty.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: pretty sisters (VS-26) | read full text
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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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koovúra yâamachas pananúvuup.
We all have pretty necks.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
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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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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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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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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ahupyâamach vúra nipárihishrih."
(He said), "Let me turn into a pretty stick."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
yâamach vúra kiikyâavishap."
I'll make you pretty."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás "
yâamachas kumúsahitih."
And (he said), "You look pretty."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
koovúra yâamachas pamukun'ápxaan.
All their caps were pretty.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Tan Oak Acorn" (WB_KL-31) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
vúra yâamach mu'ifápiit.
His daughter was pretty.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Story of Madrone" (WB_KL-35) | read full text -
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 -
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 -
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 -
yâamach tá kunipmahóonkoon.
They felt good.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pikiawish at Katimin" (WB_KL-83) | read full text -
xás pamukunyafusayêepsha vúra uum yâamach ukyâahahitih.
And their good dresses were made pretty.Source: Julia Starritt, "Indian Clothes" (WB_KL-86) | read full text