Ararahih'urípih
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chifich to defeat, to beat someone in a contest, to beat someone at gambling

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1110 | revised Nov 07 2014

chifich • V • to defeat, to beat someone in a contest, to beat someone at gambling

Derivative (1)
chifíchfip "to beat completely at a game"

Source: WB 289, p.330

  • chifíichtihaphanik ikreemyahváraa pakurihákaam. They couldn't beat him at playing music or singing. [Reference: KS1. Eel 003]
  • ápapkam takinchífich. One side beat the other. [Reference: WB 13: Coyote's Gambling Song 007]

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  1. chavúra   pâanpay   vúra   tá   kun-chífich  
    finally   after.while   Intensive   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    And later on all at once they beat him.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  2. vúra   koovúra   pa-mú-'uup   tá   kun-chífichfip   vúra  
    Intensive   all   the-3sPOSS-possession   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat.completely   Intensive  
    They won from him all that he had.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  3. tá   kun-chífich  
    PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    They beat him.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  4. táay   nik   tá   kun-chífich   vúra   pu-'ixrara-tih-ara   váa   xás   u-'ívur   pa-mú-kiit   mu-yáfus  
    much   a.little   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat   Intensive   NEG-weep-DUR-NEG   that   then   3s(>3)-cry.for   the-3sPOSS-maternal.grand-relative.through.woman   3sPOSS-dress  
    They had won lots of things from him but he never cried, all he cried for was his grandmother's dress.
    Source: Fritz Hansen, "Mourning Dove Young Man Gambles away his Doodle Bug Grandmother's Dress" (JPH_KT-06) | read full text

  5. koovúra   kun-chífich  
    all   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    They were winning everything.
    Source: Violet Super, Why the eel has no bones (VSu-06) | read full text
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  6. xás   pâanpay   xás   pa-mu-'ípi   káru   vúra   chavúra   vaa   káru   kun-chífich  
    then   after.while   then   the-3sPOSS-bone   also   Intensive   finally   so   also   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    And after a while, finally they also won his bones.
    Source: Violet Super, Why the eel has no bones (VSu-06) | read full text
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  7. xás   koovúra   tá   kun-chífich  
    then   all   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    They won them all.
    Source: Violet Super, Why the eel has no bones (VSu-06) | read full text
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  8. xás   koovúra   kin-chifíchfip  
    then   all   3pl>3pl-beat.completely  
    And (the upriver people) beat them completely.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Steals Fire" (WB_KL-10) | read full text

  9. ápap-kam   tá   kin-chífich  
    one.side-side   PERF   3pl>3pl-beat  
    One side beat them (on the other side).
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
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  10. vúra   tá   kin-chífich  
    Intensive   PERF   3pl>3pl-beat  
    They beat them.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
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  11. púya-va   pa-tó-o   xus   tá   kana-chífich   kári   pa-mu-têenva   tó-o   syuunkiv  
    and.so-so   NOMZ-PERF-3s(>3)   think   PERF   2pl>1s-beat   then   the-3sPOSS-earring   PERF-3s(>3)   pull.out  
    And when she thought, "I've been beaten," then she pulled off her earrings.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  12. púya-va   pa-kéevniikich   tá   kun-chífich  
    and.so-so   the-old.woman.(dimin.)   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    Then the old woman was beaten.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Perils of Weasel" (WB_KL-19) | read full text

  13. chavúra   uum   koovúra   tá   kun-chífich   akráa   chamuxich-'îin  
    finally   3.SG   all   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat   eel   sucker-TOPIC  
    Finally Sucker won everything from Eel.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Eel and Sucker" (WB_KL-37) | read full text

  14. kári   xás   vaa   káru   vúra   u-chífich  
    then   then   so   also   Intensive   3s(>3)-beat  
    Then he won those too.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Eel and Sucker" (WB_KL-37) | read full text

  15. kári   xás   u-xus   máva   aaníhich   tá   kun-chífich  
    then   then   3s(>3)-think   here!   my.older.brother   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    And he thought, "Look, big brother's getting beaten."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Shinny Game Medicine" (WB_KL-54) | read full text

  16. xás   kun-chífich  
    then   3pl(>3s)-beat  
    And they beat him.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text

  17. vúra   tá   pura fâat   thiiná-tih-ara   vúra   tá   kun-chifíchfip  
    Intensive   PERF   nothing   have-DUR-NEG   Intensive   PERF   3pl(>3s)-beat.completely  
    He didn’t have anything, they beat him completely.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text