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-kan Locative; at, in, to
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lexicon ID #3736 | revised Aug 22 2005
-kan • SUFF • Locative; at, in, to
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Note: Alternant of -k 'locative'; occurs irregularly with a few nouns, e.g. tíikan 'in the hand', sipnúukan 'in the storage basket'.
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xas upíip chími kiik'íchunvi sípnuukan kiik'iruváramnihi then he.said soon you.guys.hide.yourselves storage.basket.in you.guys.get.into.it But (the old man) had said, "You had better hide! Get into the storage basket, quick!" Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full textkúna vúra patapasihêeraha uum kúnish axváhahar tíikyan ár uxváhahiti patu'áffishahaak patapasihêeraha in.addition Intensive the.real.tobacco 3.SG sort.of having.been.made.sticky in.the.hand person it.makes.it.sticky when.one.touches.it the.real.tobacco But the real tobacco is pithy, it makes a person's hands sticky when one touches it, the real tobacco does. Source: Phoebe Maddux, Downslope and Upslope Tobacco (JPH_TKIC-III.4) | read full textáxak pa'ápsuun vaa káankan kuntháaniv asímnaam two the.snake that there they.lie bed Two snakes are sitting on the bed. Source: Vina Smith, Sentences about sitting, standing and lying (VS-35a) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playpeekxaréeyav yíchakanach koovúra kunpamfipishniháyaacha the.god all.in.one.place all they.come.together The gods all gathered together. Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Gambling Song" (WB_KL-13) | read full text
Spoken by Chester Pepper | Download | Playkári xás tóo psáansip patayíith tishnamkanvínusunach then then he.has carry.back the.brodiaeas skunk.sp. Then (the type of skunk called) tishnamkanvínusunach carried off the brodiaeas Source: Nettie Ruben, "The Story of Skunk" (WB_KL-46) | read full textvíri vaa kunkupitih pathakan'ávak tá kunthataktakúraan pamukunyáfus pamukunyupastáran mûuk pakun'ívunti kahyuras'afishríhan so so they.were.doing.it above.the.knee PERF they.were.tattered their.dresses their.tears with.(by.means.of) that.they.were.crying.for.him Klamath.Lakes.Young.Man They did this, their dresses were all tattered up above the knees from the tears that they were weeping for Klamath Lakes Young Man. Source: Chester Pepper, "Love Medicine" (WB_KL-51) | read full textkári xás pamukun'ikrívraam usúruruprinahiti yíthakan then then their.house a.hole.was.through.it in.one.place And there was a hole through (the wall of) their house at one place. Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Who Died Laughing" (WB_KL-63) | read full textxás sipnúukan kunmáhyaanatih afrúus kunfíkriiptih then storage.basket.in they.put.them.in mildewed.acorns they.separated.them And they put them in a storage basket, they separated out the mildewed acorns. Source: Nettie Ruben, "Making Acorn Soup" (WB_KL-74) | read full textxás tíikan uyuuhrámnih xás pa'arataanva'úpas úktaamti tíikan then hand she.spit.into then the.pain-saliva she.held hand. And she spat into her hands, and she held the pain-saliva in her hands. Source: Julia Starritt, "The Sucking Doctor" (WB_KL-80) | read full text