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axmay suddenly; all at once
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #924 | revised Nov 07 2014
axmay • ADV • suddenly; all at once
Derivative (1)
axmáy'ik "suddenly; at one moment"
Source: WB 224, p.327
- îifiti chími axmáy îim úxak. Then sure enough all at once there was a noise outside. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 020]
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xas tá ikxúrar axmay mâaka úxak.
And when evening came suddenly there was a noise at the back of the house.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
axmay ma'kúkam úxak.
Suddenly there was a noise at the back of the house.Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text -
chí 'axmay u'árihrishuk nixúti
" vinusuná'anamahich."
Suddenly something ran out. At first I thought it was a little bear cub.Source: Benonie Harrie, "Coyote Pups" (DAF_KT-05a) | read full text -
xás axmáy Daisy u'áhoo,
And suddenly Daisy came [and said,]Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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îifiti tá xánahishich chími axmay urikirikiha.
A while afterwards all at once there was a sound of people walking.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text -
chími axmay ára utnûupni.
Then all at once some one looked in.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Attends a Flower Dance at Orleans" (JPH_KIM-08) | read full text -
chími axmay húut tu'iin,
máruk utápichraa.
Then behold he slipped in upslope direction.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "How Western Yellow-Bellied Racer was Transformed" (JPH_KIM-10) | read full text -
chavúra tá xánahishich chími axmáy u'áasish patáprihak,
vúra tóo mchax tá pukunish kêenatihara.
Then after a while all at once he lay down on the pavement, he was hot, it was like he couldn't move.Source: Yaas, "How Grizzly Bear Got his Ears Burnt Off" (JPH_KT-01a) | read full text -
xás axmáy vúra kúnish ukéen,
xás yíth upíip:
" atafâat pihnêefich.
ããx,
atafâat pihnêefich."
Then all at once it kind of moved, and one said: "Maybe it's Coyote. Oh, maybe it's Coyote."Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
chavúra tá pâanpay axmáy pihnêefich upvôonfuruk.
Then after a while once Coyote came back into the house.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full text -
xas chími axmáy u'ípak.
Then after a while he came back.Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
chími axmáy u'ípak.
Then he came back.Source: Abner's mother, "Crow Woman and her Neglectful Husband" (JPH_KT-08) | read full text -
chavúra pâanpay chím axmay yíth ukúha.
Then all at once one of the people got sick.Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Bluejay Myth" (JPH_PHM-24-343a) | read full text -
xas xára xás axmáy u'ípak papíkchah,
Riverside xás uparamsîip.
And after a long time, one day the picture arrived, it arrived from Riverside.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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kári xás axmáy vúra upíip "
ishávaas,
ishávaas,
ishávaas.
And suddenly (Coyote) said, "Nephew, nephew, nephew!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
axmáy vúra kunvítish.
Suddenly they paddled to shore.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (WB_KL-02) | read full text -
axmáy vúra yítha ukyívivrath.
Suddenly one fell in.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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kári xás axmáy vúra upiip, " ishávaas, nipthivkéevish, ishávaas, nipthivkéevish."
And suddenly (Coyote) said, "Nephew, I'll go along, nephew, I'll go along."Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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chavúra axmáy vúra kunvítish.
Finally they suddenly paddled to shore.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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chími axmáy yúruk utrûuputih.
Suddenly he looked downriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás axmáy fâat kúnish uthítiv.
And suddenly he sort of heard something.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
chavúra xára tah,
axmáy asámyiith úxak.
Finally it was a long time, (when) suddenly gravel sounded.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text -
xás axmáy vúra uthítiv ishnur.
And suddenly he heard thundering.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás axmáy vúra "
anoo!
anoo!
tá néemchak."
And suddenly (he said), "Ouch! ouch! I'm burnt!"Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás axmáy vúra pa'áhup tóo skaksîip.
And suddenly the stick jumped up.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás axmáy pa'ávansas kunpávyiihfuruk.
And suddenly the men came in.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás axmáy vúra uthítiv,
asámyiith úxak.
And suddenly he heard it, the gravel sounded.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text -
xás axmáy îim kunihmárish.
And suddenly they stopped running outside.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
xás axmáy ithyáruk má' pihnêefich ukpêehva "
shúuuuuhuuuuu."
And suddenly across river in the mountains, Coyote hollered "shúuuuuhuuuuu."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to a War Dance" (WB_KL-06) | read full text -
axmáy u'árihvarak.
Suddenly (the person) came down from upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Trades Songs" (WB_KL-07) | read full text -
xás xánahich xás axmáy útraax.
And in a little while, suddenly it struck.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás pihnêefich axmáy hôoyva ukpêehva
" shúuuuuhuuuuu."
And suddenly Coyote hollered somewhere, "Shuuuuuhuuuuu."Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text -
xás axmáy chishíi kuníkvuuhvunaa.
And suddenly dogs howled.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
xás peethyáruk kunitkárati axmáy úmkuufha kufípriik.
And when they looked across-river, suddenly there was smoke in the willow-grove.Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text -
kári xás axmáy vúra pa'asiktávaan upiip " yáxa, ee! yáxa ithyáruk."
Then suddenly one woman said, "Look, oh look across-river!"Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
axmáy ithyáruk úskaakroov,
upihnêefhitih.
Suddenly he jumped upriverward across-river, he gave a coyote-howl.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text -
xánahichvari axmáy u'áhoo,
pihnêefich.
In a little while, suddenly Coyote came.Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
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xás kári axmáy vúra sáruk utápichfak.
And suddenly he slipped downhill.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
xás axmáy vúra máruk kúna utápichraa.
And suddenly he slipped upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text -
axmáy ík vúra yav.
At one moment it would be good.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
xás axmáy ukréemyah,
ukréemyah.
And suddenly the wind blew and blew.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
axmáy kun'áhoo pa'avansáxiich.
Suddenly the boys came.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-20) | read full text -
axmáy umúuyha.
Suddenly the string attached to the fishnet quivered.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text -
kári xás axmáy upvôonfuruk pathufkírik.
And suddenly Owl came in again.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text -
púyava kúkuum axmáy tuyíkiha mahnûuvanach.
Then Chipmunk suddenly got sick again.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Blue Jay As Doctor" (WB_KL-29) | read full text -
kári xás axmáy vúra káan úxak.
And suddenly there was a noise there.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
ee!
axmáy áxup úkyiimnuprih.
Oh! Suddenly dressed deer meat fell in.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
xás kári axmáy káruk ára u'árihvarak.
And suddenly a person came down from upriver.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás axmáy vúra yítha úkfuukiraa,
u'ax.
And suddenly she grabbed one, she killed him.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
xás káruk útroovutih,
axmay u'árihvarak.
Then he looked upriver, suddenly (Grizzly) came down.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text -
kári xás pakúuk kunpávyiihma axmáy vúra fâatva kunthítiv.
And when they came back there, suddenly they heard something.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text -
kári xás apsunmúnukich axmáy uvôonuprav.
And suddenly Racer crawled out (prematurely).Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Adulterers Discovered" (WB_KL-39) | read full text -
axmáy ík máruk ára u'íhuniheesh.
Suddenly a person was about to dance down.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full text -
áxmay vúra kunpáxviipha.
Suddenly they quarreled.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full text -
víri teepshítaanivanihich axmáy kúnish fâat uthítiv.
After a while suddenly he sort of heard something.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
axmáy kunithvíripvarak peekxareeyav'ifápiitichas.
Suddenly the spirit girls ran down from upriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
teepshítaanivanihich axmáy kúnish fâat uthítiv.
In a little while, suddenly he sort of heard something.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
axmáy yúruk kunithvíripraa peekxareeyav'ifápiitichas.
Suddenly the spirit girls ran up from downriver.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
teepshítaanivanihich axmáy kuníthyiimfuruk peekxareeyav'ifápiitichas.
In a little while, suddenly the spirit girls fell into the house.Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full text -
chavúra teepshítaanivanihich axmáy vaa ukúupha,
sâam utfákutih.
Finally after a while suddenly he did this, he looked downhill.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
axmáy ára u'árihraa.
Suddenly a person came up.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
xás poofúmtaapsur víri yûuth pootrûuputih,
xánahich axmáy vaa ukuupha,
pamukunfuraxpikshipíkmath axmáy u'áapuchur.
And when he blew, as he looked down across, in a little while suddenly they did this, (the women's) woodpecker-head sun-shades suddenly collapsed.Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text -
axmáy xás vúra pa'íshaha uchánchaaksur.
Suddenly the water opened up.Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text -
kári xás axmáy uchúupha.
And suddenly (a voice) spoke.Source: Mamie Offield, "A Trip to the Land of the Dead" (WB_KL-58) | read full text -
axmáy kúnish pay'ôok fâat upmahóonkoon.
Suddenly he sort of felt something right here (on his body).Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
chavúra púxay xárahara,
axmáy yeenipaxvúhich káan u'uum.
Finally it wasn't a long time after, (when) suddenly a little girl arrived there.Source: Daisy Jones, "The Snake People" (WB_KL-60) | read full text -
axmáy xás ukôoha pooxráratih.
And suddenly he stopped crying.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
axmáy xás pa'úuhyan hôoyva u'aramsîiprin.
Suddenly a voice came from somewhere.Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text -
kári xás ikxáram axmáy uthítiv,
axmáy uvôonfuruk pa'apurúvaan.
Then in the night suddenly she heard it, suddenly the devil came in.Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil and the Girl" (WB_KL-64) | read full text