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yáfus to wear a dress; to put on a dress
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7027 | revised Feb 11 2016
yáfus • V • to wear a dress; to put on a dress
Derivatives (5)
axyusyáfus "pine-nut dress"
furaxyáfus "red satin dress"
sirikayáfus "silk"
surukamyáfus "woman's underwear, slip, underskirt of a woman's dress"
yáfus "woman's dress"
Source: WB 1650, p.399
- cheemyáachva vúra kúkuum yíth takunipyáfus. Every once in a while they put on another dress. [Reference: KM 32.4]
- vaa takunipyáfus. They wore those things as dresses. [Reference: WB T65.23]
Sentence examples (3)
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xas pamúkîit upeer:
" tâak pamiyáfus níxraam."
And he told his grandmother: “Give me your dress. Let me bet it.”Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
ta'ítam u'êeheen pamuyáfus.
Then she gave him her dress.Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text -
peempurávaas patuvuhvúhinaa púyava patakuníkviipvarayva púyava tá kunsíchakvutva,
vaa tá kunipyáfus.
And when they did the deerskin dance, when they carried the obsidian blades, they wore the flour bags around their waist, they put them on that way, as dresses.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The White Man's Gifts" (WB_KL-65) | read full text