Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
This is the public version of Ararahih'urípih. Click here for the password-protected private version (which includes some restricted-access text content).
New search
Index order: alphabetical | text frequency
Search Index
man'áta maybe, perhaps, I don't know
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #4236 | revised Nov 14 2014
man'áta • PCL • maybe, perhaps, I don't know Variant: manâa.
Derivation: | man áta |
why... maybe |
Source: WB 966.1, p.366
Sentence examples (6)
Display mode: sentence | word | word components
man'áta pa-kéevniikich uum pufâat mú-kyav maybe the-old.woman.(dimin.) 3.SG nothing 3sPOSS-making Maybe an old woman, she had nothing to do. Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
Spoken by Grace Davis | Download | Playfâat vaa vúra vaa pá-vaa kupí-tih-an man'áta axraas what that Intensive that NOMZ-that do-DUR-Participial maybe gopher It is something that is doing that, maybe a gopher. Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full textman'áta maybe I don't know. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20b) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playkári xás kun-piip man'áta then then 3pl(>3s)-say maybe And they said, "I don't know." Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Origin of the Pikiawish" (WB_KL-48) | read full textkári xás u-xús man'áta pákuri ni-kyâa-vish then then 3s(>3)-think maybe song 1s(>3)-make-FUT And she thought, "Maybe I'll make a song. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine for the Return of a Sweetheart" (WB_KL-49) | read full textxás u-píip man'áta tá pu-na-pikrôok-ara then 3s(>3)-say maybe PERF NEG-1s(>3)-remember-NEG And he said, "I don’t know, I've forgotten." Source: Julia Starritt, "How the Rube Family Was Named" (WB_KL-66) | read full text