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yupsítanach baby
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lexicon ID #7197 | revised Feb 17 2016
yupsítanach • N • baby Variant: yupsítanich, yupsítaach.
Literally: 'little mousey-eye'
| Derivation: | yúup síit-ar-ach |
| eye mouse-having-DIM |
Derivatives (2)
araramvanyupsítanach "horsefly"
yupsitanachpírish "plant sp., the four-o'clock"
Source: WB 1698.10, p.403
Note: Equiv. to ararápiit, axichpíitiich, ánupanach, anamahápiitich.
- naa yaas'ára muyupsítanach niycháxchaaxtiheesh. I will be bothering Humankind's baby. [Reference: KM 26.21]
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tá nithítiv payupsítanach uxráratih.
I hear the baby crying.Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about perception, animals, verb tenses (SD-VS-01) | read full text
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yupsítanich tóo xrára.
The baby cried.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | read full text
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payupsítanich puxráratih.
The baby is not crying.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences with relative clauses, negation, commands (VS-09) | 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 payupsítanich uum thaxtúuyak vúra sú' úkrii.
And the baby was inside a baby-basket.Source: Julia Starritt, "The Living-house" (WB_KL-77) | read full text