Ararahih'urípih
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itfúruk to look indoors

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3216 | revised Feb 09 2015

itfúruk • V • to look indoors

Derivation:  it-fúruk
look-indoors

  • kári xás úhyiv pa'ipa kupimúsaranhat, uhyûunishvanaa, pootfúnukva. Then the one that went back to see hollered, he hollered to them when he looked in. [Reference: KT 155.38]

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  1. xás   u-tfúnuk-va  
    then   3s(>3)-look.indoors-PL.ACT  
    So he looked in.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  2. kári   xás   kun-itfúnuk-va   p-eekmaháchraam  
    then   then   3pl(>3s)-look.indoors-PL.ACT   the-sweathouse  
    And they looked into the sweathouse.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  3. p-oo-tfúnuk-va   yánava   vúra   púra fáat  
    NOMZ-3s(>3)-look.indoors-PL.ACT   visible   Intensive   nothing  
    When he looked into the living house, he saw there was nothing there.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text

  4. p-óo-'uum   chanchaaksúr-ak   p-oo-tfúnuk-va   pa-mukun-'iinâak   vúra   uum   ú-m'aax-varayva  
    NOMZ-3s(>3)-arrive   roof-hatch-Locative   NOMZ-3s(>3)-look.indoors-PL.ACT   the-3plPOSS-indoors   Intensive   3.SG   3s(>3)-red-hot-here.and.there  
    When he arrived, when he looked inside through the smokehole, it was red all over inside their house (by reflection from his clothing).
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  5. xás   p-oo-tfúnuk-va   u-mah   káan   ú-krii   pa-'ifápiit  
    then   NOMZ-3s(>3)-look.indoors-PL.ACT   3s(>3)-see   there   3s(>3)-live   the-young.unmarried.woman  
    And when he looked inside, he saw her, the girl was there.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text