Ararahih'urípih
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kôok / kooka- kind, variety

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3915 | revised Oct 31 2014

kôok / kooka- N • kind, variety

Derivatives (3)
kookamáh'iit "every morning"
kôokaninay "everywhere"
kookfâachas "some things"

Source: WB 900, p.362

Note: Idiom: fâat kook 'What's that?' (WB files).

  • tâak kúkuum yíth kôok. Give me a different kind. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 395]
  • hâari vúra payváheem xavramníhak numáahti vaa kooka'úhraam. Sometimes now in old house-pits we find that kind of pipe. [Reference: TK 150.22]


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  1. xas   kun-píip   "nuu   nu-sêey-ti   -vaa   kooka-pákurih  
    then   3pl(>3s)-say   "we   1pl(>3)-not.know-DUR   NOMZ-so   kind-song  
    Then they said, "We don't know that kind of song!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  2. vaa   kôok   pa-ni-víik-ti   arareemváram  
    so   kind   NOMZ-1s(>3)-weave-DUR   plate.basket  
    That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
  3. víri   manâa   pu--'aapunmu-tih-ara   xás   vúra   xás   kôok   pa-tákiram   vúra   kun-ikyâa-ti  
    so   maybe   NEG-1s(>3)-know-DUR-NEG   then   Intensive   then   kind   NOMZ-acorn-leaching.hole   Intensive   3pl(>3s)-make-DUR  
    I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basket
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
    Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Play
  4. vaa   pa-yíth   kôok   kun-íhruuv-tih-anik   pa-tákiram  
    so   the-other   kind   3pl(>3s)-use-DUR-ANC   the-acorn-leaching.hole  
    They used to use a different kind of soaking basket.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  5. kôokaninay   vúr   u-'íif-tih  
    everywhere   Intensive   3s(>3)-grow-DUR  
    They grow all over.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text
  6. kun-'aapúnmu-tih-anik   vúra   ník   pa-'úhish   ník   vúra   kun-sánpiithvu-tih-anik   pa-kook-âach-as  
    3pl(>3s)-know-DUR-ANC   Intensive   a.little   NOMZ-seed   a.little   Intensive   3pl(>3s)-carry.(things).around-DUR-ANC   the-kind--PL  
    They knew that seeds were packed around in various ways.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  7. fâat   kóok  
    what   kind  
    What kind of thing is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  8. xás   u--ti   vaa   kíp   kôok   u-víshvaan-ti   xathímtas  
    then   3s(>3)-think-DUR   that   just   kind   3s(>3)-like.(food)-DUR   roasted.grasshoppers  
    And he thought, "He just likes that kind, roasted grasshoppers."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  9. kôokaninay   vúra   pa-kun-máah-ti   úuth   kun-píkfuutkaan-va  
    everywhere   Intensive   NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-see-DUR   out.to.water   3pl(>3s)-push.back.into.water-PL.ACT  
    Everywhere they saw him, they pushed him back out into the river.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  10. kári   xás   kôokaninay   vúra   ú-ktir   pa-xunyêep   máruk   sáruk   yúruk   káruk  
    then   then   everywhere   Intensive   3s(>3)-hit.by.throwing   the-tan.oak.tree   uphill   downhill   downriver   upriver  
    And he beat the tan-oak trees everywhere, uphillward, downhillward, downriverward, upriverward.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  11. víri   vaa   kúth   payêem   pa-xuntápan   kôokaninay   vúra   u-'íif-tih  
    so   that   because.of   now   the-acorn   everywhere   Intensive   3s(>3)-grow-DUR  
    That's why the acorns grow everywhere now.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  12. t-óo   tkaanvar   pa-'ávansa   kookamáh'iit   vúra   t-óo   tkaanvar  
    PERF-3s(>3)   spear.fish   the-man   every.morning   Intensive   PERF-3s(>3)   spear.fish  
    The man went to spear fish, every morning he went to spear fish.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text
  13. kári   xás   kun-piip   fâat   kóok  
    then   then   3pl(>3s)-say   what   kind  
    And they said, "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  14. yakún      kun-'ay   fâat   kóok  
    you.see   PERF   3pl(>3s)-fear   what   kind  
    You see, they were afraid, (they wondered), "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  15. fâat   kôok   p-ee-p-âanvu-ti   iim  
    what   kind   NOMZ-2s(>3)-ITER-paint.one's.(own).face-DUR   2sg.  
    What did you paint it with?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text
  16. víri   kôokinay   kahyúras      kun-'aramsípriin   p-eekxariya-'ifápiit-shas  
    so   everywhere   Klamath.Lakes   PERF   3pl(>3s)-start.out   the-spirit.person-young.unmarried.woman-PL  
    They came from Klamath Lakes and everywhere, the spirit girls.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text
  17. áxak   kun-ifyúku-ti   asiktávaan-sa   kôokaninay  
    two   3pl(>3s)-go.around-DUR   woman-PL   everywhere  
    Two women wandered around everywhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  18. víri   kôokaninay   ni-'aapúnmu-ti   p-eekxaréeyav   t-u-'íifship  
    so   everywhere   1s(>3)-know-DUR   NOMZ-spirit.person   PERF-3s(>3)-grow.up  
    I know everyplace that a spirit has grown up.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  19. víri   kôokaninay   kúuk   kun-thítiimu-tih   p-eekxaréeyav mukinínaasich  
    so   everywhere   to   3pl(>3s)-listen.in.a.direction-DUR   the-deer  
    They heard the deer (lit., "spirit's pets") everywhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  20. púyava   vúra   vaa   u-thiiná-ti   pa-páthraam   xás   kôokinay   vúra   u-'ápiv   akâay   áta   mu-'ífunih  
    you.see   Intensive   so   3s(>3)-have-DUR   the-hair-wrapping   then   everywhere   Intensive   3s(>3)-look.for   who   maybe   3sPOSS-hair  
    So he kept the hair-club, and he looked for her everywhere, (he wondered) whose hair it was.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text