Ararahih'urípih
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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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  1. xas   pa-'asiktávaan-sa   káru   áhup      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 text
  2. kusripán-'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 text
  3. xás   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 text
  4. xás   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 text
  5. púyava   máruk   xás   áhup   sú'      kun-máhyaan   túr      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 text
  6. kári   xás   vaa   vúra   káan      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 text
  7. xás   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 text
  8. vúra   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 text
  9. kári   xás   vaa   u-kupí-ti   payêem      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 text
  10.    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 text
  11. payêem   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 text
  12. pa-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