Ararahih'urípih
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turáayva / turáayvu- to look around, to look for, to seek

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #6138 | revised Oct 31 2014

turáayva / turáayvu- • V • to look around, to look for, to seek

Derivative (1)
turáayvarayva "to look around for"

Source: WB 1403, p.387

  • kári xás pa'âapun tutúraayva,... And when he looked around on the ground,... [Reference: WB T14.15]
  • pamuhrôoha xákaan puráan kuntúraayvuti. He and his wife are looking for each other. [Reference: KV]

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  1. xás   t-u-túraayva   vúra   uum   táay   pa-xathímtas  
    then   PERF-3s(>3)-look.around   Intensive   3.SG   much   the-roasted.grasshoppers  
    And he looked around, there were lots of grasshoppers.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text

  2. xás   ta'ítam   u-turáayv-aheen  
    then   so   3s(>3)-look.around-ANT  
    So then he looked around.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  3. xás   kun-túraayva  
    then   3pl(>3s)-look.around  
    And they looked around.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-04) | read full text

  4. kári   xás   ík   vúra   i-túraayv-eesh   pa-nú-peer-ahaak  
    then   then   must   Intensive   2s(>3)-look.around-FUT   NOMZ-1pl(>3)-say.to-when  
    Then when we tell you, you can look around."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  5. kári   xás   ík   vúra   i-túraayv-eesh   pa-nú-peer-ahaak  
    then   then   must   Intensive   2s(>3)-look.around-FUT   NOMZ-1pl(>3)-say.to-when  
    Then when we tell you, you can look around."
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  6. púyava   uknamxánahich   tá   kun-p-ípasma   kári   xás   kun-ipêer   chími   túraayv-i  
    you.see   placename   PERF   3pl(>3s)-ITER-bring.(person)   then   then   3pl(>3s)-say.to   soon   look.around-IMPER  
    Then they brought him to uknamxánahich, and they told him, "Look around!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  7. kári   xás   p-oo-túraayva   kári   u-piip   nani-shívshaaneen  
    then   then   NOMZ-3s(>3)-look.around   then   3s(>3)-say   1sPOSS-land  
    And when he looked around, then he said, "My country!"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-05) | read full text

  8. ník   u-túraayva  
    a.little   3s(>3)-look.around  
    He was looking for it.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Coyote Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-08) | read full text

  9. xás   sáruk   kun-túraayvu-tih   púra fátaak  
    then   downhill   3pl(>3s)-look.around-DUR   nowhere  
    And they looked for him downhill, (but) he was nowhere (to be seen).
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote as Doctor" (WB_KL-11) | read full text

  10. kári   xás   pa-'âapun   t-u-túraayva   yee   asa-yaamach-'íshara   ôok   páy   u-tháaniv  
    then   then   NOMZ-on.the.ground   PERF-3s(>3)-look.around   well   rock-pretty-extremely   here   this   3s(>3)-sit  
    And when he looked around on the ground, he thought "Well, a pretty rock is lying here!"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Coyote Eats His Own Excrement" (WB_KL-14) | read full text

  11. xás   u-túraayva  
    then   3s(>3)-look.around  
    Then she looked around.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "The Bear and the Deer" (WB_KL-32) | read full text

  12. xás   kun-túraayva  
    then   3pl(>3s)-look.around  
    Then they looked around.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text

  13. púyava   t-u-túraayva   yítha   yanéekva   tá   púra fátaak  
    you.see   PERF-3s(>3)-look.around   one   visible   PERF   nowhere  
    Then one looked around, he saw that she was not there.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Lizard and Grizzly Bear" (WB_KL-34) | read full text

  14. víri   p-oo-túraayva   púra fátaak   vúra   yâahi-tih-ara   pa-kun-'ûupvu-naa-tih   p-eekxariya-'ifápiit-sha  
    so   NOMZ-3s(>3)-look.around   nowhere   Intensive   be.good-DUR-NEG   NOMZ-3pl(>3s)-dig.roots-PL-DUR   the-spirit.person-young.unmarried.woman-PL  
    When she looked around, she couldn't fit in anyplace where the spirit girls were digging roots.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text

  15. p-oo-túraayva   yánava   koovúra   tá   púfaat   p-eekxariya-'ifápiit-sha  
    NOMZ-3s(>3)-look.around   visible   all   PERF   nothing   the-spirit.person-young.unmarried.woman-PL  
    When (the poor one) looked around, she saw they were all gone, the spirit girls.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text

  16. vaa   uum   vúra   pu-na-turâayvu-tih-eesh-ara  
    so   3.SG   Intensive   NEG-1s(>3)-look.around-DUR-FUT-NEG  
    "That way I won't be looking for him."
    Source: Lottie Beck, "The Kidnapped Child" (WB_KL-61) | read full text