Karuk Dictionary
by William Bright and Susan Gehr (© Karuk Tribe)
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ífik to pick up (from the ground, as acorns)
Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #1468 | revised Nov 03 2005
ífik • V • to pick up (from the ground, as acorns)
Derivatives (5)
ífikar "to go gather"
ífikaraha "to be many people picking"
ifíkfip "to finish picking up"
ifíkpiithva "to pick up here and there, haphazardly"
ífikram "acorn picking basket"
Source: WB 405, p.335
Note: The term is applied especially to the harvesting of acorns; but also to picking up flints (KS 33.006).
- paxuntápan poo'ífiktih, káru pa'athithxuntápan umkáanvutih. She was picking up acorns, and she was gathering hazelnuts. [Reference: KS 05 Peregrine Falcon 308]
- kári xás upífik pamúsaanva, xás upiptákith, áhup upvêehruprih. And then (Coyote) picked up his clothes, and he mended them, he stuck twigs through them. [Reference: WB T5.14]
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