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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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xas kun-píip "nuu nu-sêey-ti pá-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 textvaa 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 | Playvíri manâa pu-ná-'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 | Playvaa 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
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Playkôokaninay 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 textkun-'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 textfâat kóok what kind What kind of thing is that? Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playxás u-xú-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 textkôokaninay 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 textkári 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 textvíri 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 textt-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 textkári 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 textyakún tá 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 textfâat 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 textvíri kôokinay kahyúras tá 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 textáxak 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 textvíri 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 textvíri 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 textpúyava 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