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ikmar / ikman- to meet ; to hit with the fist
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1831 | revised Nov 08 2014
ikmar / ikman- • V • to meet ; to hit with the fist
Derivatives (4)
ikmáanav "to hit with the fist"
ikmánmar "to beat (someone) up with one's fists"
ikmárakurih "to slash, to stab"
ikmárihivrik "to meet (someone) coming"
Source: WB 460, p.338
- kári xás úkmar áxak ifápiitshas. And he met two young women. [Reference: WB T9. Coyote Goes to the Sky 002]
Sentence examples (6)
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kári xás káan áraar tóo kmárihivrik.
Then he met a man coming there.Source: Mrs. Bennett, "Screech Owl and Coyote" (ALK_14-35) | read full text -
nikmárakuriheeshva.
I am going to stab it.Source: Vina Smith, Sentences: actions and instrumentals (VS-21) | read full text
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xás káan nikmárihivrik pihnîich wagon áxak padonkey kunithyúruti.
And I met him, an old man, two donkeys were pulling a wagon.Source: Violet Super, Violet's Picture (VSu-02) | read full text
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kári xás úkmar áxak ifápiitshas.
And he met two young women.Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Trades Songs and Goes to the Sky" (WB_KL-09) | read full text -
kári xás tóo kmar páaxiich.
And she met the child.Source: Mamie Offield, "How Deer Meat Was Lost and Regained" (WB_KL-33) | read full text -
túus máruk xás tóo mah, káan tóo kmárihivrik.
He saw Mockingbird uphill, he went to meet him there.Source: Nettie Ruben, "Mockingbird and Swamp Robin" (WB_KL-43) | read full text