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tur / tun- carry (things which stand up, like wood) in a packbasket; to gather (wood)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6136 | revised Nov 09 2015
tur / tun- • V • carry (things which stand up, like wood) in a packbasket; to gather (wood)
Derivatives (6)
tur "packbasket load (of wood or the like)"
túrar "to go gather wood"
túrish "to finish gathering wood"
turíshriihva "to carry load after load of wood"
túunfak "to carry (wood) down from uphill"
túunsip "to load up, to raise up with a burden basket (full of wood or the like) on one's back"
Source: WB 1402, p.387
- áhup utúunti. She's carrying wood in a packbasket. [Reference: KV]
- yíiv vúra hâari máruk pa'áhup kuntúunti. Sometimes they go wood-gathering far upslope. [Reference: TK 184.24]
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xas pa-'asiktávaan-sa káru áhup tá kun-túrar then the-woman-PL also wood PERF 3pl(>3s)-go.gather.wood Then the women went out to fetch firewood. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textkusripán-'ahup kun-túrish madrone.tree-wood 3pl(>3s)-finish.gathering.wood They brought in madrone wood. Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textxás áxak ifápiit-ich-as sah'áhup kun-turar astiip then two young.unmarried.woman-DIM-PL driftwood 3pl(>3s)-go.gather.wood shore Then two girls went to the river to get driftwood." Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full textxás kun-íp-tuunsip then 3pl(>3s)-ITER-load.up Then they packed their wood in their packbaskets. Source: Phoebe Maddux, "Coyote Starts for Klamath Lakes, East Roasted Grasshoppers, Floats Down River and Marries Two Girls" (JPH_KT-05) | read full textpúyava máruk xás áhup sú' tá kun-máhyaan túr tá kun-íkyav you.see uphill then wood inside PERF 3pl(>3s)-put.in packbasket.load PERF 3pl(>3s)-make Uphill they put wood in them, they make a basket-load. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textkári xás vaa vúra káan tá kun-'íitshur pa-mukún-tur then then so Intensive there PERF 3pl(>3s)-leave the-3plPOSS-packbasket.load And they leave their basket-loads there." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textxás kun-piip vaa vúra kun-'írunaa-tih-eesh pa-tur then 3pl(>3s)-say so Intensive 3pl(>3s)-go.(pl.)-DUR-FUT the-packbasket.load And then they said, "The basket-loads will walk (home by themselves)." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textvúra uum yarará-piit vúra kám-tuun-tih Intensive 3.SG married.woman-new Intensive 3s(>3)-carry.in.wood-basket-DUR Let the new married woman be carrying it." Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full textkári xás vaa u-kupí-ti payêem tá pu-'áhoo-tih-ara pa-tur then then so 3s(>3)-do-DUR now PERF NEG-go-DUR-NEG the-packbasket.load So now she does that, the basket-load doesn't walk anymore. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote As Lawmaker" (WB_KL-15) | read full texttá kun-turíshriihva pa-sárip PERF 3pl(>3s)-carry.loads.of.wood the-hazel.twigs They carried home the hazel sticks in burden baskets. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Work Contests" (WB_KL-79) | read full textpayêem uum tá kóo pa-tur chishíi mûuk uum tah now 3.SG PERF all the-carry.in.wood-basket dog with.(by.means.of) 3.SG already Now the use of burden baskets is all gone, it is with horses now. Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full textpa-sárip-'atimn-ak pa-kun-túunfak the-hazel.twigs-pack-basket-Locative NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-carry.(wood).down.from.uphill They carried them downhill in hazel-twig burden baskets. Source: Emily Donahue, "Preparing Basket Materials" (WB_KL-85) | read full text