Ararahih'urípih
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kôok / kooka- kind, variety

Dictionary Entry
lexicon ID #3915 | revised Oct 31 2014

kôok / kooka- N • kind, variety

Derivatives (3)
kookamáh'iit "every morning"
kôokaninay "everywhere"
kookfâachas "some things"

Source: WB 900, p.362

Note: Idiom: fâat kook 'What's that?' (WB files).

  • tâak kúkuum yíth kôok. Give me a different kind. [Reference: JPH "Grammar" 395]
  • hâari vúra payváheem xavramníhak numáahti vaa kooka'úhraam. Sometimes now in old house-pits we find that kind of pipe. [Reference: TK 150.22]


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  1. xas    kunpíip    "nuu    nusêeyti    pávaa    kookapákurih   
    then    they.said    we    we.don't.know.it    that    kind.of.song   
    Then they said, "We don't know that kind of song!"
    Source: Margaret Harrie, "The Ten Young Men who Became the Pleiades" (DAF_KT-02) | read full text
  2. vaa    kôok    panivíikti    arareemváram   
    so    kind    what.I.weave    plate.basket   
    That's the only kind I weave, the Indian plate.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  3. víri    manâa    puná'aapunmutihara    xás    vúra    xás    kôok    patákiram    vúra    kunikyâati   
    so    maybe    I.didn't.know    then    Intensive    then    kind    that.a.soaking.basket    Intensive    the............are............making............it   
    I don't know what kind they make for a soaking basket
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  4. vaa    payíth    kôok    kuníhruuvtihanik    patákiram   
    so    a.different    kind    they.used.to.use    the.soaking.basket   
    They used to use a different kind of soaking basket.
    Source: Violet Super, Grace Davis, Madeline Davis, Conversation: Weaving (GD-MD-VSu-01) | read full text
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  5. kôokaninay    vúr    u'íiftih   
    everywhere    Intensive    it.is.growing   
    They grow all over.
    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
  6. kun'aapúnmutihanik    vúra    ník    pa'úhish    ník    vúra    kunsánpiithvutihanik    pakookâachas   
    they.had.been.knowing.it.long.ago    Intensive    a.little    that.seed    a.little    Intensive    they.were.carrying.them.around.long.ago    the.various.ways   
    They knew that seeds were packed around in various ways.
    Source: Phoebe Maddux, They Knew That Seeds Will Grow (JPH_TKIC-IV.3) | read full text
  7. fâat    kóok   
    what    kind   
    What kind of thing is that?
    Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
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  8. xás    uxúti    vaa    kíp    kôok    uvíshvaanti    xathímtas   
    then    he.was.thinking    that    just    kind    he.likes.it    roasted.grasshoppers   
    And he thought, "He just likes that kind, roasted grasshoppers."
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  9. kôokaninay    vúra    pakunmáahti    úuth    kunpíkfuutkaanva   
    everywhere    Intensive    when.they.were.seeing.him    out.to.water    they.pushed.him.back.into.the.river   
    Everywhere they saw him, they pushed him back out into the river.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Coyote's Journey" (WB_KL-03) | read full text
  10. kári    xás    kôokaninay    vúra    úktir    paxunyêep    máruk    sáruk    yúruk    káruk   
    then    then    everywhere    Intensive    he.hits.by.throwing    the.tan.oak.tree    uphill    downhill    downriver    upriver   
    And he beat the tan-oak trees everywhere, uphillward, downhillward, downriverward, upriverward.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  11. víri    vaa    kúth    payêem    paxuntápan    kôokaninay    vúra    u'íiftih   
    so    that    because.of    now    the.acorn    everywhere    Intensive    it.is.growing   
    That's why the acorns grow everywhere now.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "Coyote Gives Salmon and Acorns to Mankind" (WB_KL-17) | read full text
  12. tóo    tkaanvar    pa'ávansa    kookamáh'iit    vúra    tóo    tkaanvar   
    he.has    spear.fish    the.man    every.morning    Intensive    he.has    spear.fish   
    The man went to spear fish, every morning he went to spear fish.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Greedy Father" (WB_KL-24) | read full text
  13. kári    xás    kunpiip    fâat    kóok   
    then    then    they.say    what    kind   
    And they said, "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  14. yakún        kun'ay    fâat    kóok   
    you.see    PERF    they.are.afraid    what    kind   
    You see, they were afraid, (they wondered), "What is it?"
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Story of Slug" (WB_KL-38) | read full text
  15. fâat    kôok    peepâanvuti    iim   
    what    kind    you.were.painting.your.face.with    2sg.   
    What did you paint it with?"
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Why Lightning Strikes Trees" (WB_KL-44) | read full text
  16. víri    kôokinay    kahyúras        kun'aramsípriin    peekxariya'ifápiitshas   
    so    everywhere    Klamath.Lakes    PERF    they.came.from    the.spirit.girls   
    They came from Klamath Lakes and everywhere, the spirit girls.
    Source: Nettie Ruben, "Medicine to Get a Husband" (WB_KL-50) | read full text
  17. áxak    kunifyúkuti    asiktávaansa    kôokaninay   
    two    they.were.wandering    women    everywhere   
    Two women wandered around everywhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  18. víri    kôokaninay    ni'aapúnmuti    peekxaréeyav    tu'íifship   
    so    everywhere    I.know.it    where.a.spirit    he.had.grown.up   
    I know everyplace that a spirit has grown up.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Medicine for the Return of Wives" (WB_KL-52) | read full text
  19. víri    kôokaninay    kúuk    kunthítiimutih    peekxaréeyav mukinínaasich   
    so    everywhere    to    they.listened.in.that.direction    the.spirit's.pets   
    They heard the deer (lit., "spirit's pets") everywhere.
    Source: Chester Pepper, "Deer-hunting Medicine" (WB_KL-53) | read full text
  20. púyava    vúra    vaa    uthiináti    papáthraam    xás    kôokinay    vúra    u'ápiv    akâay    áta    mu'ífunih   
    you.see    Intensive    so    he.had.it    the.hair-club    then    everywhere    Intensive    he.looked.for.her    who    maybe    her.hair   
    So he kept the hair-club, and he looked for her everywhere, (he wondered) whose hair it was.
    Source: Mamie Offield, "The Devil Discovered" (WB_KL-62) | read full text