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yee exclamation, often translated 'well,...'
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7058 | revised Jun 09 2015
yee • INTERJ • exclamation, often translated 'well,...'
Source: WB 1670, p.400
Note: Pronounced with [E] as in English "bet".
Sentence examples (27)
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yée ôok pámit ni'ákunvarat.
Not long ago I was out hunting.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
yée! víri íiv nipíivur kóova puxich nikvúrish.
I was so tired I was nearly dead.Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text -
hínupa yee u'apunkôoti pamahnûuvanach.
That one kept poisoning Chipmunk.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Bluejay, Medicine-Man" (DAF_KT_03) | read full text -
púyava "
yee!
chími ímpaan akich."
Then (they said), "Well, how about you (singing), friend!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
kári xás pá'aas kunpíshmaar "
yee!
chúvaarap."
And when they finished eating, (they said) "Well, let's go!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
kári xás kunpíip "
yee!
chími árihishrih."
And they said, "Well, sing!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
"
yee!
chúvaarap."
(And they said), "Well, let's go!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
yeee!
káruma íp nípaat '
tu'áhooheen pihnêefich.'
Well! I said Coyote had come!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
"
yee!
chémi,
yôotva,
yôotva,
ishávaas."
"Well, all right, hurray, hurray, nephew!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
xás upiip, " yée naa, pihnêefich tuvôoruvrathaheen.
And he said, "Well, Coyote has come into the sweathouse.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play -
ta'ítam " yée chími árihish."
Then (they said), "Well, sing!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play -
ta'ítam "
yée naa hínupa páy uum vúra pihnêefich payûum uthívtaaptih.
So (they said), "Well, that's Coyote who is dancing downriver!Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich tóo piip
" yée naa,
yiivárih.
And Coyote said, "Hey, go away!Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás upíip
" yee!
vúra ník kúnish ûumukich.
And he said, "Say, it's kind of close!Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | 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 -
" yee! amayaa'íshara.
"My, it's delicious!Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
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yée naa apsunxára káan úkuroovutih."
"Say, a long snake is lying there, head upstream."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-18) | read full text -
xás kunpiip, "
yée naa,
íf páy paxúun amáyav."
And they said, "Say, this is really delicious acorn soup!"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás tá kunipêer pamukun'ákah, "
yee!
arákaas,
hûut ti'iin.
And they said to their father, "Hey, old man, what's wrong with you?Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
xás upíip yítha pa'ávansa, "
yee!
páy fâat tá nimah.
And one man said, "Hey, what's this I see?"Source: Julia Starritt, "The Hair in the Soup" (WB_KL-21) | read full text -
kári xás upíip pihnêefich,
" yee!
hûut inísheesh pamí'aan,
húuk paathmi.
And Coyote said, "Hey, what are you going to do with your string, throw it (away) some place!Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
yee! xás uxútih,
" hûut áta pánikupheesh."
Well, then he thought, "How ever shall I do?"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás kári uxútih, "
yee!
fâat yáxa.
And he thought, "Well, look! What is it?Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
xás uxus, "
yée naa,
íf tá nakúha."
And he thought, "Say, it really hurts me!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Creation of Eels" (WB_KL-41) | read full text -
yee!
víri kún káan xás kun'iin,
pakéevniikich káru pa'ifápiit.
Well, there they were, the old woman and the girl.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
yee kári xás vúra púxay vúraxay xay vura hûut-heesh,
vúra puxích tuyíkiha.
Oh, nothing can be done, she's really sick.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay as Doctor" (WB_LA78.1-004a) | read full text
Spoken by Nettie Ruben | Download | Play -
yée yáxa ithyáruk xás uvásip pakúusrah.
There was the sun coming up from across (the next hill).Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote and the Sun" (WB_LA78.1-016b) | read full text
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Play