pyáp

Older brother. yáya ‘elder brother!’; nayáyas ‘my brother’; iyáš ‘your brother’; pyáp ‘(his/her) brother’; ača kú iwá pɨ́n čúuš pyáp ƛ̓aax̣ʷmaamíyaw tkʷatatmaamíyaw ku kúušx̣i naamíyaw ‘because the water is elder brother to all the foods and likewise to us’; pamáwšuwaša wɨštáymat naamína pyápna ɨwínatna ‘they are getting themselves ready to meet our older brother the deer’; nayáyasayintaš pasápsik̓ʷana wášat ‘my two older brothers taught us to ride’; áq̓inušanaaš yašáp ‘I saw your older brother’; iq̓ínušanaaš yašáp ‘your older brother saw me’; kutaš aw kú kúuš kúx̣ana inmíin nápu pyápin ku ín ‘and then my two older brothers and I would do thusly’; pyápin páˀaniyayiya ‘his (own) older brother made it for him’; kutaš aw kú kúuš kúx̣ana inmíin nápu pyápin ku ín ‘and then my two older brothers and I used to do it’; pɨ́npyapin páˀaniyayiya ‘his (somebody else’s) older brother made it for him’; naamí pyáp ‘our Elder Brother (referring to the Creator)’; naamí pyáp páyatut ‘our Elder Brother Páyatut’. [NE yáyaˀ ‘elder brother!’; NP /piyep/.]