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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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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 textvaa 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
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Playvíri 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
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Playvaa 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
Spoken by Violet Super | Download | Playkôokaninay 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 textkun'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 textfâat kóok what kind What kind of thing is that? Source: Vina Smith, Sentences from Now You're Speaking Karuk (VS-20c) | read full text
Spoken by Vina Smith | Download | Playxás 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 textkôokaninay 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 textkári 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 textvíri 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 texttóo 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 textkári 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 textyakún tá 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 textfâat 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 textvíri kôokinay kahyúras tá 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 textáxak 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 textvíri 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 textvíri 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 textpúyava 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