Karuk Dictionary and Texts
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Julia Starritt, "A Blow-out" (1957)

Publication details: William Bright, The Karok Language (1957), pp. 304-305, Text 91

Project identifier: WB_KL-91

Note: Bright: "This is an experience of another person, retold in the first person by the informant."


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káruk íp nifyúkutihat ítam. xás ipvárakirak panini'ahtákni pamuyukúku íp umátnuusat. víri kárivari káan utháaniv. víri peenvári payêem upikyâatih. púyava panipkárahaak payêem káruk kúna ni'árihroovish, niptakníhareesh.

Earlier today I was going around upriver. And on the way back down from upriver, my tire burst. (The car) is still sitting there. Ben Wilder is fixing it now. When I go back across-river now, I'll go upriver, I'll go drive back.