Ararahih'urípih
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uhtháamha / uhtháamhi- to plant

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lexicon ID #6208 | revised Jan 22 2016

uhtháamha / uhtháamhi- • V • to plant

Derivation:  úhthaam-ha  (= úuh thaam-ha)
garden-DENOM  (= tobacco meadow-DENOM)

Derivative (1)
uhthamha'ávaha "vegetables"

Source: WB 1480.5.2, p.390; TK 50.11

  • púya íf hôota patu'úhthaamha. How late he's planted his garden! [Reference: KV]

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  1. payêem   vúra   vaa   káan   taay   u-'íif-ti   pa-káan   píins   kun-'úhthaamhi-tih-irak  
    now   Intensive   so   there   much   3s(>3)-grow-DUR   NOMZ-there   beans   3pl(>3s)-plant-DUR-where  
    They grow more now where beans are planted.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Of All Karuk plants the Black Nightshade is Most Like Tobacco, the Whites Tell Us (JPH_TKIC-III.3) | read full text

  2. vúra   pu-'uhthaamhí-tih-ap  
    Intensive   NEG-plant-DUR-INV  
    They do not sow it.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full text

  3. uhtháamha  
    plant  
    to plant, to sow
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  4. iheeraha-'uhthamhí-ram  
    tobacco-plant-place  
    tobacco garden
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  5. pá-mitva   iheeraha-'uhthamhí-ram-hanik  
    NOMZ-former   tobacco-plant-place-ANC  
    former tobacco plot
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, Parts of the Tobacco Plant (JPH_TKIC-III.5.A.b-g) | read full text

  6. purafâat   vúra   káru   kuma-'úhish   utháamhí-tih-ap-hanik   vúra   iheeraha-'úhish   vúra   kích   kun-iyâa-tih-anik  
    nothing   Intensive   also   3sPOSS-seed   plant-DUR-NEG-ANC   Intensive   tobacco-seed   Intensive   only   3pl(>3s)-make-DUR-ANC  
    And they never sowed any kinds of seeds, they operated only with the tobacco seeds.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, But They Never Packed Seeds Home (JPH_TKIC-IV.4) | read full text

  7. káan   tishrám-kaam   xás   ú-hthaamhi-tih   káru   ipahá-'anamahach   káan   u-'íihya  
    there   valley-large   then   3s(>3)-plant-DUR   also   tree-little   there   3s(>3)-stand.(long.object)  
    A big field is there, and a man is planting there, and a little tree is standing there.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text

  8. u-tishramhúniih-va   káru   máruk   víri   vaa   káan   káru   u-hthaamhí-ram-hi-tih  
    3s(>3)-be.downhill.slope-PL.ACT   also   uphill   so   so   there   also   3s(>3)-plant-place-DENOM-DUR  
    There are fields on the slopes uphill also, there is cultivated ground there too.
    Source: Julia Starritt, "Responses to Pictures" (WB_KL-92) | read full text