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lexicon ID #7157 | revised Nov 14 2014
yukun • PCL • you see... Variant: yakun.
Derivation: | yána kun |
visible meaning.unknown |
Source: WB 1657.1, p.400
- yukún koovúra vaa umúsahiti pananú'uup. Everything looks like our things. [Reference: WB 16: Coyote Marries His Own Daughter 036]
- purakára vúra áama aamtíheeshara, yukún tanupíshunva pa'áama. Nobody will eat salmon, we have hidden the salmon. [Reference: WB 17: Coyote Gives Salmon 002]
Sentence examples (16)
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yúkun pee'itxâarihvahaak ôok ipishkákishriheesh."
If you open your eyes, you will land back here again.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
yukún peethívthaaneen vúra thúkinkunish xás kúnish ûumukich.
The earth is so green and kind of close.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pâanpay xás uxús "
naa nixúti '
napikshayvûunishti,'
yukún koovúra vaa umúsahiti panunú'uup,
káru uum vúra vaa umúsahiti panini'áka.
Then after a while she thought, "I think he's deceiving me, everything looks like our things, and he looks just like my father."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Marries His Own Daughter" (WB_KL-16) | read full text -
kári xás kunpiip, " púra kára vúra áama aamtíheeshara, yúkun tá nupíshunva pa'áama."
And they said, "Nobody will eat salmon, we have hidden the salmon."Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text -
yukún vaa káan á' u'íithra murax'ipaha'ípan."
He's up there at the top of a slippery tree."Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text -
yukún yíiv á' utásunihtihanik pa'íin.
You see, the falls were (like) a barrier (reaching) a long ways up.Source: Mamie Offield, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-27) | read full text -
ta'ítam koovúra pakeemishatunvêechas kunikyáviichvunaa, yukún vaa káan kunpávyiihmeesh patupíshyaavpa.
So all the little wild animals worked, you see they were going to come back there when it was winter.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
yukún nanihrôohas húukava tá kun'uum."
You see, my wives have gone somewhere."Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
îikam tá kunpirukûurish,
yukún vaa kunkupitih,
fúrax mukunpikshipíkmath.
They sit down again outdoors; you see, they do this; their sun-shades are of woodpecker heads.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
yukún uum káru ishímfir,
asaxêevar veekxaréeyav.
You see, Baldy Peak Spirit was tough too.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
yukún vaa xákaan u'iifshípreenik,
pamutákasar.
You see, he had grown up with that tossel.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
yukún uum ikxareeyaatâapas u'iifshípreenik iknûumin veekxaréeyav.
You see, Burrill Peak Spirit had grown up into a real ikxaréeyav.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
yukún naa ík káru vaa nikupheesh pookúphaanik peeknûumin veekxaréeyav.
You see, I must also do that way, as Burrill Peak Spirit did.Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text -
yukun ithivthaaneentaaníha.
You see, (it will be) the end of the world.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Flood" (WB_KL-56) | read full text -
yukún vúra uum xára tá kun'íchunva áasiv.
You see, (the couple) had hid for a long time in a cave.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
yukún vaa kunípeenti yumaará'aama achvuun.
You see, they call dog salmon "dead-man's salmon."Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text