Karuk Dictionary
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pufich'iykáraan deer-slayer
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lexicon ID #5095 | revised Aug 23 2005
pufich'iykáraan • N • deer-slayer
- kíri vaa mikun'ávan íf pufich'iykáraansas. We wish your husbands were such real deer-slayers! [Reference: DeA&F 2 Old Man Turtle 010]
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chi váa kúuk kiik-'uum-i kíri váa káan ku-'iin kíri vaa mikun-'ávan íf pufich'iykáraan-sas soon that to.there 2pl(>3)-arrive-IMPER I.wish that there 2pl(>3)-(two).be I.wish that 2plPOSS-husband truly deer-slayer-PL "Go over there to live! That's where we want you to live! You had better marry those boys, they are such good hunters!" Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text