Ararahih'urípih
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itvâavnuk to look down over

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3432 | revised Aug 27 2015

itvâavnuk • V • to look down over Variant: itvâamnuk.

Derivation:  it-vaa-vruk
look vaa-down.over

Derivative (1)
ishyux'itvaavnúkraam "name of a rock on the mountainside near Ike's Falls"

  • chávura aseeshtákak tupitvâavnuk. He looked down over Gap-in-the-Rock toward Katimin. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 246]
  • axmáy vúra xás utvâavnuk, xeepan'ípan. Then all at once he looked over, at Xeepan'ípan. [Reference: TK 67.37]

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  1. ifuchtîimich   p-oo-p-itvâavnuk-anik   yánava   pura fátaak  
    last.time   NOMZ-3s(>3)-ITER-look.down.over-ANC   visible   nowhere  
    The last time he looked over, (the falls) were nowhere to be seen.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text

  2. xás   aseeshtákak   p-oo-p-itvâavnuk   mâam   páykuuk   u-mah   tá   kun-p-ífukraa   mú-'arama   xákaan  
    then   placename   NOMZ-3s(>3)-ITER-look.down.over   uphill   over.there   3s(>3)-see   PERF   3pl(>3s)-ITER-climb.uphill.(plural)   3sPOSS-child   both  
    And when he looked over at aseeshtákak, he saw here right there uphill, she and her child were climbing uphill.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Duck Hawk and His Wife" (WB_KL-26) | read full text

  3. kári   xás   vaa   kâam   ifuchtîimich   kun-ítvaavnuk   aseeshtákak  
    then   then   so   little.upriver   last.time   3pl(>3s)-look.down.over   placename  
    And finally, at aseeshtákak, they looked over, a little ways upriver.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  4. p-ee-p-árihrup-ahaak   yúruk   p-ee-p-itvâavnuk-ahaak   i-máh-eesh   ú-mkuufhi-tih  
    NOMZ-2s(>3)-ITER-go.away.downriver-when   downriver   NOMZ-2s(>3)-ITER-look.down.over-when   2s(>3)-see-FUT   3s(>3)-give.off.smoke-DUR  
    When you go back downriver, as you look down over, you will see there is smoke.
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text