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tháfip to devour, to eat up
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #5851 | revised Dec 29 2015
tháfip • V • to devour, to eat up
Derivation: | tha-fip |
tha--completely |
Derivatives (5)
chafipáyaachha "to eat up completely"
thafipáyaachha "to eat up completely"
thafípkaanva "to eat all up"
tháfipship "to eat up everything"
tháfipshur "to eat up off of"
Source: WB 1414, p.388
- púyava uxus, púyava hínupa ôok páy patakintháfip . So he thought, "This is the place they ate them up here." [Reference: KS 9. Lizard and Grizzly 029]
- chavúra koovúra utháfip, pamukunpiykiríkir vaa káru utháfip. Finally (Coyote) ate up everything, he even ate up their ladders. [Reference: WB T3.133]
Sentence examples (15)
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koovúra vúra mi-putíruh ni-tháfip-eesh all Intensive 2sPOSS-potato 1s(>3)-devour-FUT I am going to eat all of your potatoes. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playkoovúra t-i-tháfip pa-'áv all PERF-2s(>3)-devour the-food You ate up all the food. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playkoovúra pa-ni-tháfiip-tih all NOMZ-1s(>3)-devour-DUR I ate all of it. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: questions, answers, possessives (VS-29) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playkoovúra t-i-tháfip pa-'áama all PERF-2s(>3)-devour the-salmon You ate up all the salmon. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playkoovúra t-i-tháfip pa-'áama púfaat vúra naa all PERF-2s(>3)-devour the-salmon nothing Intensive 1sg. You ate up all the salmon, and I don't have any. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playíim t-i-tháfip pa-'áama 2sg. PERF-2s(>3)-devour the-salmon You ate up the salmon. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about looking and feeling a certain way (VS-32) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playchavúra koovúra u-tháfip pa-mukun-piykiríkir vaa káru vúra u-tháfip finally all 3s(>3)-devour the-3plPOSS-ladder that also Intensive 3s(>3)-devour Finally he ate them all up, he ate their ladder up too. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full textvaa pá-vaa tá kupavêenah-an koovúra t-u-tháfip pa-nunu-patúmkir that NOMZ-so PERF do-Participial all PERF-3s(>3)-devour the-1plPOSS-head-rest That's who did that, he ate up all our pillows." Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full textxás u-thafipshîip then 3s(>3)-eat.up.everything He ate them all up. Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full textta'ítam vúra u-chafipáyaachha so Intensive 3s(>3)-eat.up.completely So he ate them all up. Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full textkári xás u-piip achiimuuch-pihnîich akâay t-u-tháfip naní-xraat then then 3s(>3)-say lizard-old.man who PERF-3s(>3)-devour 1sPOSS-gooseberry Then Old Man Lizard said, "Who ate up my gooseberries? Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full textkári xás u-thafípkaanva vúra t-u-xuniháyaachha then then 3s(>3)-eat.all.up Intensive PERF-3s(>3)-be.very.hungry And he ate them all up, he was really hungry. Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full textkáruma t-i-tháfip-aheen pa-nanu-patúmkir in.fact PERF-2s(>3)-devour-ANT the-1plPOSS-head-rest You ate up our pillows!" Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full textvíri p-óo-'av hínupa vúra t-u-tháfip xás ífuth xás ú-pxuuspa so NOMZ-3s(>3)-eat surprise Intensive PERF-3s(>3)-devour then afterward then 3s(>3)-realize.what.one.is.doing When he ate it, he devoured it (all), and (only) afterwards did he realize it. Source: Lottie Beck, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-23) | read full text