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yiimúsich a little ways off
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #7081 | revised Feb 12 2016
yiimúsich • ADV • a little ways off
Derivation: | yiiv mus-ich |
far mus-DIM |
Source: WB 1680.1, p.401
Note: Pron. with short /s/.
- yiimúsich vúra utsîiprin. He looks from some distance off. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 015]
- chavúra yiimúsich tu'uum. Finally he went a little ways. [Reference: WB T3.33]
Sentence examples (20)
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xas muyiimúsich káru ník u'áraarahiti,
áxak yeeripáxvuhsa kaan kun'iin.
And (others) lived close by. Two girls lived there.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
itráhyar pa'asípiitsa káru vaa kóohoo imvarámpiitsa káru itráhyar síkih.
There were ten new bowls, and also ten new plates, and also ten spoons.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
kári xas yiimúsich tu'áhoo.
Then he went a short way.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
yiimúsich xas nihyárihish.
I stood a little way off.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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chavúra yiimúsich tu'uum.
Finally he went a little ways.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
yiimúsich tóo tsîip.
He looked off a little ways.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
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payêem vúra yiimúsich vúra nikvíripshipreevish,"
uxus.
"Now I'll break into a run just close to it," he thought.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text -
chavúra puyiimúsich uumára, táma kúkuum utápichfak.
Finally he hadn't got far, and again he slipped downhill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
yiimúsich úhyiivti "
chú páy axíich pipúniich,
táay íp imafúnvaansa."
Some distance (from home) he was shouting, "Here, children, this is the tail! There were a lot of beggars."Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
púyava patée kxurárahaak yiimúsich vúra tóo kpêehva patu'ípak.
When it was evening, he would shout a little ways off as he returned.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
kári xás yiimúsich vúra ukpêehva
" axichapipúniishich."
Then he shouted a little ways off, "Little children-tail!"Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
yiimúsich kúna uum táma upikyívunih.
But it fell down again just a little ways off.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
yiimúsich ník tu'uum,
kári tupikyívunih.
It went a little ways, then it fell down again.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
yiimúsich tóo pmah,
apsunmúnukich.
She saw Racer a little ways off.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
víriva yiimúsich vúra poo'ûupvutih.
She dug roots a little ways away.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text -
yiimúsich vúra utsîip pamukun'ikrívraam.
He saw their house a little ways off.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
xás mâam kúuk ukúniihva yiimúsich vúra.
So he shot a little ways uphillward.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
káruma uum yiimúsich tu'íshunvaheen pa'ápuroon.
The fact was, she had hidden the charms some distance away.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text -
yiimúsich xás pakuníkpaaksur.
They cut them off some ways out (from the trunk).Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text -
xás pa'ávansa vaa vúra úkviipti, kúnish yiimúsich payêem.
The man is running like that, sort of far away now.Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text