Ararahih'urípih
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mah'íitnihach early morning, early in the morning

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lexicon ID #4172 | revised Jul 21 2014

mah'íitnihach • N • early morning, early in the morning

Source: WB 957.1, p.366

  • xás u'ákunvar pihnêefich mah'íitnihach. Then Coyote went hunting early in the morning. [Reference: KS Crane 051]
  • púyava ithâan kumamah'íitnihach vaa káan kunixrárati pahitíhaan kun'úmootihirak. So early one morning, they were weeping there, there where they always used to go. [Reference: DeA & F 4: Land of the Dead 017]

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  1. mah'íitnihach   tá   kun-'ivyíihrupuk   tá   kun-'ákunvan-va  
    early.morning   PERF   3pl(>3s)-go.outdoors.(pl.)   PERF   3pl(>3s)-go.hunting-PL.ACT  
    Early in the morning they go out hunting.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  2. aayâach   pa-pihníich   t-óo   píip   "kúkuum   mah'íitnihach   ku-'íchunv-eesh   pa-chími   kun-pávyiihfuruk-heesh-haak  
    it.was.because   the-old.man   PERF-3s(>3)   say   "again   early.morning   2pl(>3)-hide.oneself-FUT   NOMZ-soon   3pl(>3s)-go.back.indoors.(pl.)-FUT-when  
    Because the old man had said, "You must hide again tomorrow morning before they come into the house."
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  3. xas   mah'íitnihach   kun-'iruvôonsip   xas   kun-'ímnish   xuun  
    then   early.morning   3pl(>3s)-get.up   then   3pl(>3s)-cook   acorn.soup  
    Early the next morning, they got up and cooked the acorn mush.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  4. kúkuum   mah'íitnihach   tá   kun-'ákunvan-va   pa-tá   kun-pámvaar  
    again   early.morning   PERF   3pl(>3s)-go.hunting-PL.ACT   NOMZ-PERF   3pl(>3s)-finish.eating  
    And again in the early morning they went forth to hunt when they got through eating.
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text

  5. imáankam   xás   mah'íitnihach   xás   ni-'ákunvar-at  
    next.day   then   early.morning   then   1s(>3)-go.hunting-PAST  
    Next morning early I went hunting.
    Source: Benonie Harrie, "A Hunting Yarn" (DAF_KT-05c) | read full text

  6. máh'iit   mah'íitnihach  
    morning   early.morning  
    In the morning, early in the morning.
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  7. tá   ni-'itxâarihvu-tih   mah'íitnihach  
    PERF   1s(>3)-open.eyes-DUR   early.morning  
    I woke up in the early morning.
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  8. mah'íitnihach   ni-'itxâarihva  
    early.morning   1s(>3)-open.eyes  
    I woke up early.
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  9. naa   vúra   itíhaan   máh'iitnihich   ní-kfuuksipriv  
    1sg.   Intensive   always   early.morning   1s(>3)-get.up.(from.lying)  
    I always get up early.
    Source: Julian Lang, Vina Smith, Conversation: Julian's Day (JL-VS-01) | read full text
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  10. mah'íitnihich  
    early.morning  
    It's morning.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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  11. payêem   uum   mah'íitnihich  
    now   3.SG   early.morning  
    It's morning.
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20d) | read full text
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  12. kári   xás   púyava   úum-pan   mah'íitnihach   tá   kun-pávyiihship   kúkuum   pa-astaah  
    then   then   you.see   3.SG-Emphatic   early.morning   PERF   3pl(>3s)-go.away.again.(pl.)   again   the-duck  
    And then they, the ducks, left again in the morning.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote's Homecoming" (second telling) (WB_KL-02a) | read full text
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  13. xás   mah'íitnihach   uum   vúrava   u-kvatan-k-ôo-tih  
    then   early.morning   3.SG   just   3s(>3)-go.get.sweathouse.wood-to-HAB-DUR  
    So he always went early in the morning to gather sweathouse wood.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Boy from Itúkuk" (WB_KL-57) | read full text

  14. káan   xás   mah'íitnihach   u-papivan-kôo-ti   pa-mu-sárum   ishkêesh-ak   hôoy   kích   t-óo   p-thívruuhruprav  
    there   then   early.morning   3s(>3)-go.search.for-to-DUR   the-3sPOSS-Jeffrey.pine.root   river-Locative   where   only   PERF-3s(>3)   ITER-float.out.through  
    Then she went early in the morning to look for her pine-roots there in the river, (she wondered) where they had floated out.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text

  15. xás   vúra   mah'íitnihach   pishíich   u-'imkatáxrah-varak  
    then   Intensive   early.morning   first   3s(>3)-be.bright-down.from.upriver  
    And (when she looked) the light was first coming down from upriver, early in the morning.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Pool in Big Rock" (WB_KL-59) | read full text

  16. káru   káakum   mah'íitnihach   kun-tátapvu-naa-ti  
    also   some   early.morning   3pl(>3s)-trap-PL-DUR  
    And some men were trapping early in the morning.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Deer Hunting" (WB_KL-70) | read full text