Ararahih'urípih
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lexicon ID #4721 | revised Mar 01 2016

payváheem • N • nowadays Variant: payvêem.

Variant payváhiim (lexicon ID #7820)

Derivation:  pay vaheem
this vaheem

Source: WB 1104.4, p.372

Note: Perh. equiv. to payêem 'now'.

  • paachvíiv uum vúra payváheem vúra kári. The bird, even now, still (does that). [Reference: DeA & F 4: Land of the Dead 145]
  • víriva payváheem vúra kári káan nipiktamkurihvankôoti. So nowadays I still always go back panning there. [Reference: DF 05: Finding Gold 013]

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  1. víri váa vúra payváhiim kári u'ívunti, pakunpáxeepanik, pamúkiit muyáfus.
    He is crying for it now yet, because they won it from him, grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  2. payváhiim váa káan vúra su' úkrii, vákay payváhiim vakay'ámtaapkunish, yúxnaam su' úkrii.
    Now she lives in there, she's a bug now, a gray bug, lives in the sand.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text