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úhthaam garden
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lexicon ID #6207 | revised Jan 22 2016
úhthaam • N • garden
Literally: 'tobacco-meadow'
Derivation: | úuh thaam |
tobacco meadow |
Derivatives (3)
uhcháamach "man's name, Pete Henry"
uhtháamha "to plant"
uhthamha'ávaha "vegetables"
Source: WB 1480.5, p.390; TK 50.11
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payêem vúra vaa káan taay u-'íif-ti pa-káan píins kun-'úhthaamhi-tih-irak now Intensive so there much 3s(>3)-grow-DUR NOMZ-there beans 3pl(>3s)-plant-DUR-where They grow more now where beans are planted. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full textvúra pu-'uhthaamhí-tih-ap Intensive NEG-plant-DUR-INV They do not sow it. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full textp-eheeraha-'úhthaam-sa the-tobacco-garden-PL Tobacco Plots Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textúhthaam garden any garden, orchard, or plantation; a tobacco plot Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textuhtháamha plant to plant, to sow Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textiheeraha-'úhthaam tobacco-garden tobacco plot Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textiheeraha-'uhthamhí-ram tobacco-plant-place tobacco garden Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textpá-mitva iheeraha-'uhthamhí-ram-hanik NOMZ-former tobacco-plant-place-ANC former tobacco plot Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textpa-'uhípih the-garden Stalk Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full textpurafâat vúra káru kuma-'úhish utháamhí-tih-ap-hanik vúra iheeraha-'úhish vúra kích kun-iyâa-tih-anik nothing Intensive also 3sPOSS-seed plant-DUR-NEG-ANC Intensive tobacco-seed Intensive only 3pl(>3s)-make-DUR-ANC And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds. Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full textvaa vúra ník kun-'áapunmu-tih-anik káru vaa uum yáv pa-pírish ávahkam kun-ithyúru-thuna-tih-aak pa-tá kun-p-úhthaam-pi-mara-haak so Intensive a.little 3pl(>3s)-know-DUR-ANC also so 3.SG good the-plant over 3pl(>3s)-drag-around-DUR-when NOMZ-PERF 3pl(>3s)-ITER-garden--finish.doing-when They also knew that it was good to drag a bush around on the top after sowing. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Practices Bordering on a Knowledge of Tillage (JPH_TKIC-IV.5) | read full textku-sâam pa-nunu-'úhthaam 3sPOSS-little.downhill the-1plPOSS-garden Our garden is down the hill. Source: Vina Smith, Sonny Davis, Sentences about driving and directions (SD-VS-02) | read full text
Spoken by Sonny Davis | Download | Playkáan tishrám-kaam xás ú-hthaamhi-tih káru ipahá-'anamahach káan u-'íihya there valley-large then 3s(>3)-plant-DUR also tree-little there 3s(>3)-stand.(long.object) A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full textu-tishramhúniih-va káru máruk víri vaa káan káru u-hthaamhí-ram-hi-tih 3s(>3)-be.downhill.slope-PL.ACT also uphill so so there also 3s(>3)-plant-place-DENOM-DUR There are fields on the slopes uphill also, there is cultivated ground there too. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full textpáy uum úhthaam koon-múrax this 3.SG garden corn-nothing.but This is a garden, nothing but corn. Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text